Table 2.

Cases of bilateral endophthalmitis.

Reference	Patient (age/sex)	Risk factors	Vision after recovery
Benezra and Chirambo39	No data	Septicemia and dysentery at the commencement of cataract surgery, and the same instruments were used in both eyes without resterilization	Perception of hand movements
Ozdek et al.40	70/male	The same irrigating fluids, flash sterilization of the same instruments, and no antibiotic prophylaxis	20/50 and 20/40
Kashkouli et al.41	67/male	Same instruments in both eyes	Visual loss
Puvanachandra and Humphry42	81/female	Instruments from the same flash cycle, antibiotic of high incidence of resistance	6/9 bilaterally