BACKGROUND Most patients with open globe eye injury are brought to hospital as emergency patients and usually require admission for emergency surgery. We analyzed the visual outcome in patients with open globe eye injury at our hospital over a 4-year period. PATIENTS AND METHODS This study reviewed 40 eyes of 40 patients with open globe eye injury who were presented to Juntendo University Shi...

Evisceration and enucleation have been acceptable therapeutic modalities to treat not only severe ocular trauma but also various conditions, such as intraocular tumors, endophthalmitis, blind-painful-cosmetically disfiguring eyes, over the last two centuries. Clinical indications choices of procedure, whether or evisceration, vary among institutions, surgeon experience, severity structure loss....

INTRODUCTION Ocular trauma is an important cause of unilateral blindness. OBJECTIVE To determine the characteristics and visual outcome of ocular trauma in the western region of Nepal. MATERIALS AND METHODS All cases of ocular trauma presenting in a one-year period to the Himalaya Eye Hospital were retrospectively reviewed. The demographic features, type and cause of trauma, time lapse befo...

INTRODUCTION Endophthalmitis is the most dreaded complication of ocular trauma and knowledge of the microbial contaminants is essential to start empirical antibiotic therapy. PURPOSE To determine incidence of contamination after open globe injuries (OGI) in our setup and to identify the spectrum of microorganisms contaminating open globe injuries. MATERIAL AND METHODS A prospective study in...

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...

Beware of the black eye! Orbital injuries are often missed or misdiagnosed. The underlying bony injury and or globe injury are often more serious than initial examination suggests.

Correct management of traumatized eye is a complicated task needing a sound evaluation of the extent of trauma. An initial history, physical examination and judicious use of Para clinical techniques to determine the extent of injury and construct a prognostic view in mind, are a prerequisite to correct surgical approach to a traumatized globe. The vitreoretinal surgeon is usually not the first ...

Although trauma is one of the main causes of orbital apex syndrome (OAS), reports of OAS associated with orbital fractures are relatively rare. We recently treated two patients who sustained severe visual impairment with damage to multiple cranial nerves (third to sixth) associated with inferomedial orbital wall fractures. In these patients, posterior movement of the globe caused neuropathy of ...