**29. Conclusion**

Patients suspected of having endophthalmitis following ocular surgery or trauma require prompt evaluation and treatment. Patients having ocular symptoms and signs in the ab‐ sence of trauma or ocular surgery and presence of risk factors such as diabetes, cardiac dis‐ ease, renal disease, organ transplantation, immunodeficiency status and malignancy should be evaluated for endogenous endophthalmitis. Since endophthalmitis can be caused by a large number of bacterial as well as fungal species, it requires rapid identification of the causative organism. Visual prognosis depends mainly on the underlying microorganisms, and it is particularly poor in cases of infection with Gram-positive bacteria or Aspergillus species. Experience has shown that early Vitrous biopsy along with intra-vitreal antibiotics may save vision in some patients while in other patients pars-plana vitrectomy may be nec‐ essary to prevent total loss of vision and perhaps an eye.
