Study of Intraocular Concentrations (Aqueous Humor, Vitreous Humor) of Antibiotics After Local and/or Systemic Administration in Endophthalmitis (CINEBIOPHTA)

Fondation Hôpital Saint-Joseph

Status: Active, not recruiting

Conditions: Endophthalmitis

Treatments: Other: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of antibiotics used in severe endophthalmitis from samples taken from treated patients

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT03968341

CINEBIOPHTA

Details and patient eligibility

About

Endophthalmitis is an intraocular inflammation due to a serious infection of bacterial, fungal or parasitic origin, involving visual prognosis if it is not treated in time and correctly. Despite the eye isolation from the rest of the body, germs can enter the eye either exogenously, during open globe surgery, following perforating eye trauma, or following anti-VEGF antibodies intravitreal injection, or other drugs such as corticosteroids for example, or by endogenous route, haematogenic as part of sepsis, usually during immunodepression. Post-operative endophthalmitis is the most feared complication following any endo-ocular surgery. It can be acute, occurring within 6 weeks post-operatively or delayed as after poor healing, or on a glaucoma filtration bubble. Endophthalmitis after cataract surgery is a complication with a low incidence of (0.030 to 0.047%) but which, due to interventions number carried out (830,000 in 2016, in France), appears significant. There are factors that favour endophtalmitis occurrence such as a vitreous exit from eyeball during surgical procedure, poor scar coaptation, premature removal of sutures, etc... They condition emergency care. Early diagnosis and appropriate treatment are essential for safeguarding the eye and its function. Therefore, therapeutic management requires endo-ocular sampling in front of any suspicion of endophtalmitis, to be done before any treatment, to carry out microbiological analysis (direct examination on slide, culture, universal and/or targeted PCR, antibiotic susceptibility test). Vitreous puncture is more contributive than anterior chamber puncture, underlining need for these two samples to identify the responsible germ. Once samples have been taken, a broad-spectrum antibiotic therapy introduction must be performed intra-vitreously combined with systemic and local administration. Intravitreal injections allow treatment to be provided at effective concentrations directly at the infection site. On the other hand, toxic risks must be taken into account, especially since the protocol may require multiple intravitreal injections.

Enrollment: 5 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Male or female > 18 years old

• Francophone

• Patients referred to emergencies by an ophthalmologist or doctor, or patients already hospitalized, with a unfavourable course 48 hours after introduction of broad spectrum probabilistic antibiotic therapy for the following situations:

  • Cataract surgery
  • Vitreoretinal surgery
  • Intravitreal injection [anti-VEGF for the treatment of AMD, dexamethasone (Ozurdex®) for the treatment of cystoid macular edema]
  • Physical signs presence of intraocular inflammation (Tyndall, hypopyon, cyclic membrane, hyalite)
  • Presence of functional signs (Decreased Visual Acuity)

• Patients for whom a management re-evaluation is essential with obligation of new intraocular samples.

• Patient affiliated to social security or, failing that, to another health insurance system

Exclusion criteria

• Patient under guardianship or curators
• Patient deprived of liberty
• Participation refusal in the study

Trial design

Primary purpose: Treatment

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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5 participants in 1 patient group

intraocular antibiotic concentrations determination

Experimental group

Description:

In the event that the patient develops unfavourably, the ophthalmologist include the patient in the trial. The patient is reviewed at 48 hours after the introduction of probabilistic antibiotic therapy for clinical reassessment and the return of microbiological test results. Following this inclusion, the new samples will be taken when the patient passes through the operating room for the treatment of his pathology as part of the care. Ophthalmologists may have to adapt the patient's management (i.e. adjustment of antibiotic therapy) as part of their usual care routine. An anterior chamber puncture and a vitrectomy are performed. Eye fluids collected as part of the treatment are sent for analysis.

Treatment:

Other: Pharmacokinetic and pharmacodynamic study of antibiotics used in severe endophthalmitis from samples taken from treated patients