The patient needs urgent examination by an ophthalmologist, preferably a vitreoretinal specialist who will usually decide for urgent intervention to provide intravitreal injection of potent antibiotics. Injections of vancomycin (to kill Gram-positive bacteria) and ceftazidime (to kill Gram-negative bacteria) are routine. Even though antibiotics can have negative impacts on the retina in high concentrations, the facts that visual acuity worsens in 65% of<unk>  patients and prognosis gets poorer the longer an infection goes untreated make immediate intervention necessary.<unk>  patients may also require an urgent surgery (pars plana vitrectomy), and evisceration may be necessary to remove a severe and intractable infection which could result in a blind and painful eye. Steroids may be injected intravitreally if the cause is allergic. In patients with acute<unk> , combined steroid treatment with antibiotics have been found to improve visual outcomes, versus patients only treated with antibiotics, but any improvements on the resolution acute<unk>  is unknown.
Endophthalmitis
Panophthalmitis
Chorioretinitis
Optic neuritis
Sympathetic ophthalmia
Toxoplasmic chorioretinitis
Ocular ischemic syndrome
Optic papillitis