Popped eye (blunt trauma leading to penetrating eye injury and lens displacement in the pseudophakic eye)

Popped eye (blunt trauma leading to penetrating eye injury and lens displacement in the pseudophakic eye).

Blunt trauma to the eye of patients with an artificial intraocular lens may cause globe rupture with all the accompanying sequelae. It must be recognised promptly and dealt with appropriately before urgent referral to ophthalmology.

Red Eye due to Leech in the Eye

A 65–yrs-old man referred for an ocular discomfort and red eye. The clinical diagnosis was leech in the left eye and its species confirmed as being Limnatis nilotica. Ocular leech infestation should be considered in patients with a history of swimming or washing their face in streams and lakes. Attention should also be given to ocular leech infestation in the differential diagnosis of ocular tr...

Penetrating Eye Injury

A 38-year-old man presented to a regional Western Australian hospital after being stabbed in his left eye with a knife. Computerized Tomography (CT) revealed a 7 cm knife blade within the globe extending along the skull base. After transfer to a tertiary hospital, a cerebral angiogram was performed, excluding significant cerebral vascular involvement. Through a multidisciplinary approach with t...

Penetrating injury of the eye.

Blunt trauma of the aging eye: injury mechanisms and increasing lens stiffness.

OBJECTIVE To investigate possible injury mechanisms in the eyes of elderly individuals and the effects of lens stiffness on model outputs indicative of injury as a function of age. METHODS Three separate frontal impact scenarios, a foam particle (30 m/s), steering wheel (15 m/s), and air bag (67 m/s), were simulated with a validated finite-element model to determine the effects of changing le...