purpose: to evaluate the effect of oral tranexamic acid, oral prednisolone and placebo on prevention of recurrent hemorrhage in traumatic hyphema. methods: this randomized placebo-controlled double-blind clinical trial was performed on 182 subjects affected by hyphema after blunt trauma. the patients were hospitalized for at least 5 days and were randomly assigned for receiving oral tranexamic ...

CASE REPORT A 61-year-old pseudophakic male with recurrent blurred vision episodes associated with uveitis, hyphema, glaucoma and vitreous hemorrhage. Iris transillumination defects and apposition of the optic and iris were found. The patient was diagnosed with Uveitis-Glaucoma-Hyphema (UGH) Syndrome. DISCUSSION Mechanical irritation of the iris is a consequence of intraocular lens malpositio...

Three unrelated patients attended the accident and emergency department with pain and blurred vision after ocular injury with a Nerf gun. Two were adults and one was a child, all of which presented within a 3 months' period. All three cases were found to have ≥1 mm of traumatic hyphema (pooling of blood in anterior chamber of the eye), indicating significant ocular trauma. The two adult patient...

PURPOSE To report a case of iris non-Hodgkin lymphoma initially thought to be uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema (UGH) syndrome. METHODS We reviewed the clinical, radiographic, and histopathologic findings in a patient with recurrent hyphemas and increased ocular pressure who eventually was found to have a rapidly growing iris mass. RESULTS An 89-year-old man with a history of cataract extraction and...

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...

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