Twelve-month functional and structural outcomes of Candida endogenous endophthalmitis in immunocompetent patients: a longitudinal cohort study of an outbreak.

Initial chorioretinal involvement was associated with poorer visual recovery and a markedly higher incidence of secondary macular neovascularization.

The early expansion of retinal pigment epithelium lesions alongside visual improvement likely reflects tissue remodeling and may be less suggestive of ongoing infection.

These findings support routine optical coherence tomography and optical coherence tomography angiography surveillance and timely anti-vascular endothelial growth factor therapy for eyes with chorioretinal involvement.