OBJECTIVE To report the visual and anatomic outcomes as well as to predict the visual prognosis of combat ocular trauma (COT) during Operations Iraqi and Enduring Freedom. DESIGN Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional, consecutive case series. PARTICIPANTS Five hundred twenty-three consecutive globe or adnexal combat injuries, or both, sustained by 387 United States soldiers treated ...

chemical injuries of the cornea are ophthalmic emergencies. these injuries often result in significant ocular morbidity and generally strike young adults in the prime years of life. classification schemes enable the ophthalmologist to determine the severity of injury and the prognosis for the injured eye. immediate management consists of copious irrigation following exposure. effective manageme...

The review presents data from studies of the ophthalmological consequences disease caused by SARS-CoV-2, especially regarding its rare manifestations. Clinical manifestations post-COVID-19 syndrome disappear within about two weeks in mild cases and 3 to 12 more severe cases. 80 % patients have than one, often two, 10 symptoms. In general, improve spontaneously continuously over time. ophthalmic...

purpose: to determine the prevalence of intraocular injuries in patients with blow-out fracture and also to evaluate the etiologic mechanism of orbital blow-out fractures methods: this study is a consecutive case series analysis of 116 patients with orbital blow-out fractures. the patients were visited by an ophthalmologist within 24 hours of trauma. results: ninety-one men and twenty-five wome...

O pen eye injuries in war have been occurring in ever-increasing numbers. After serving in Pleiku, Vietnam, for the 71st Evacuation Hospital, a concerned ophthalmologist, Albert Hornblass, MD, compared eye injury rates in American and other military conflicts. He noted that during the American Civil War, eye injuries were 0.5% of all casualties, but in the Vietnam War, eye injuries occurred at ...

INTRODUCTION Agricultural workers are predisposed to corneal injuries, which, if neglected, can lead to corneal blindness. OBJECTIVE To study the prevalence and mode of agriculturerelated corneal injuries in the village of Badkali, MuzaffarNagar, Western Uttar Pradesh, India in 2005 - 2006. SUBJECTS AND METHODS Adult population of village Badkali, MuzaffarNagar, Uttar Pradesh. A door-to-doo...

purpose: compaison of excyclotorsion induced by horizontal transposition of vertical rectus muscles versus vertical transposition of horizontal rectus muscles in rabbit eyes. methods: in this exprimental study, group 1 underwent full tendon nasal transposition of the superior rectus and full tendon temporal transposition of the inferior rectus (10 adult rabbits); group 2 underwent superior tran...