Intracameral tissue plasminogen activator (t-PA) application in a child with previously unrecognized sickle cell anemia, post-traumatic hyphema, thrombosis in trabecular mashwork and consecutive acute glaucoma showed positive results. Thirteen year-old boy, son of African father and Caucasian mother, was admitted to hospital, with symptoms of acute glaucoma and partial hyphema after right eye t...

background: we sought to determine the efficacy of topical tranexamic acid (5%) in the management of traumatic hyphema. methods: thirty eyes with gross traumatic hyphema were enrolled in this study. the patients were treated with tranexamic acid (5%) eye drop every 6 hours for 5 days. the main outcome measures were best corrected visual acuity (bcva), intra-ocular pressure (iop), day of clot ab...

Introduction: Hyphema is the accumulation of blood in anterior chamber eye that can directly affect our vision. Various factors play role final visual outcome among patients with hyphema, and there are very few related studies. Therefore, this study aimed to determine traumatic hyphema. Methods: This cross-sectional was conducted 62 cases hyphema presenting emergency department Tribhuwan Univer...

OBJECTIVE To identify risk factors associated with higher rates of ocular complications in children with traumatic hyphema. METHODS Consecutive inpatient records from July 1990 through December 1997 were retrospectively reviewed for all children (aged < or = 18 years) who were admitted to the Wilmer Ophthalmological Institute, Baltimore, Md, within 48 hours of a closed-globe injury leading to...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine the efficacy of topical tranexamic acid (5%) in the management of traumatic hyphema. METHODS Thirty eyes with gross traumatic hyphema were enrolled in this study. The patients were treated with tranexamic acid (5%) eye drop every 6 hours for 5 days. The main outcome measures were best corrected visual acuity (BCVA), Intra-ocular pressure (IOP), day of clot ab...

BACKGROUND We aimed to evaluate the etiologic factors, complications, follow-up, and treatment outcomes in serious hyphema following blunt ocular trauma in childhood. METHODS The medical records of 136 patients diagnosed as grade 3 or 4 hyphema due to blunt ocular trauma between January 2006 and December 2011 were evaluated. Visual acuity (VA), complications, and medical and surgical treatmen...

OBJECTIVE To prospectively analyze the clinical and ultrasonographic biomicroscopy (UBM) features in eyes with closed globe injury, at the initial examination, that would predict the occurrence of chronic traumatic glaucoma during a 6-month follow-up. METHODS Forty consecutive eyes with closed globe injury and a chronically elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) of at least 21 mm Hg for a minimu...