BACKGROUND/AIM Despite technological advances used in everyday clinical practice, injuries of the eye caused by various agents still produce blindness and poor vision in a significant number of people. The aim of this study was to analyze factors leading to occurrence of mechanical injuries of the eye. METHODS Mechanic injuries of the eye in patients treated at the Institute for Eye Diseases ...

AIM To analyze the epidemiology of open eye globe injuries and their treatment outcomes in patients treated at two university eye clinics in Germany in the past two decades. METHODS Retrospective analysis was performed of medical records of 1,026 patients with open globe injuries primarily treated at the Universities of Freiburg and Wurzburg between January 1981 and December 1999. Final visua...

purpose: to report and evaluate the characteristics of patients referred to the emergency department of labbafinejad medical center with work-related eye injuries during 2005.  methods: in this descriptive study, an available sample of patients with work-related eye injures were assessed. demographic characteristics, causes of ocular trauma, and use of work safety devices were main evaluated va...

AIM To analyse serious eye injuries caused by bottles containing pressurised drinks. METHODS Retrospective review of the databases of US, Hungarian, and Mexican eye injury registries. RESULTS In the combined database (12 889 injuries), 90 cases (0.7%) were caused by bottle tops or glass splinters. The incidence varied widely: 0.3% (United States), 3.1% (Hungary), and 0.9% (Mexico), as did t...

PURPOSE To document the incidence and treatment of patients with severe ocular and ocular adnexal injuries during Operation Iraqi Freedom. DESIGN Retrospective hospital-based observational analysis of injuries. PARTICIPANTS All coalition forces, enemy prisoners of war, and civilians with severe ocular and ocular adnexal injuries. METHODS The authors retrospectively examined severe ocular ...

To assess the prevalence of sports eye injuries in our area a register was kept over the 18 months from October 1982 to March 1984. Squash, association football, badminton, and tennis were the main offenders. The severest injury was from a golf ball, involving a fractured zygoma. There was one retinal dialysis, and one lens dislocation requiring extraction. Spectacles were broken in six cases a...

PURPOSE To consider the potential for ocular injury from writing implements by presenting four such cases, and to consider the incidence of such eye injuries from analysis of a national trauma database. METHODS The Home and Leisure Accident Surveillance System was searched for records of eye injuries from writing instruments to provide UK estimates of such injuries. Four patients with ocular ...

UNLABELLED Summary AIM OF STUDY The Upper East is the poorest and most rural region in Ghana and ocular injuries are a major public health problem. This study aims at providing epidemiologic data on the burden of this problem in order to facilitate the provision of integrated eye care and safety strategies for the prevention of such injuries in the region. DESIGN A retrospective case series...