BACKGROUND Uveitis sometimes causes hyphema, but severe hyphema as a complication following herpes zoster uveitis has rarely been reported. We report a rare case of zoster sine herpete with unusually severe hyphema. CASE PRESENTATION A 41-year-old Japanese female developed hyphema filling almost one-half of the depth of the anterior chamber after a two-week history of unilateral anterior uvei...

Objective: Purtscher’s retinopathy is the retinal damage following trauma or non-traumatic systemic disease, which may contain cotton-wool spots (CWSs), and cause Purtscher flecken, atrophy of optic nerve, hemorrhage posterior pole eye. Case Presentation: A 28-year-old male patient fell down from a height 10 m was admitted with swelling ecchymosis peri-orbit right The patient’s vision at level ...

BACKGROUND This study aims of determining the complications, outcome of hyphema treatment and recommend ways of enhancing good visual outcome. METHOD The records of all cases of hyphema seen from 1st January 2001 to 31st December 2005 were reviewed retrospectively. The variables analyzed were the biodata of all the patients, the agents causing hyphema, associated injuries and complications. V...

To characterize the pathophysiology of hyphema clearance, we studied changes in the facility of outflow in experimental hyphema in freshly enucleated rabbit eyes. Hyphemas, with washed normal or sickled red cells (RBCs) (suspended in isotonic phosphate buffer to obtain a hematocrit value comparable to that of whole blood) and occupying 50% to 100% of the anterior chamber volume, caused a marked...

AIMS To report a case of a patient who developed uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema (UGH) syndrome after an uneventful cataract surgery and to discuss risk factors, diagnostic challenges, management options, and clinical implications. BACKGROUND Uveitis-glaucoma-hyphema syndrome is a rare but potentially serious cataract surgery complication. Clinical manifestations include increased intraocular pressu...

PURPOSE To elucidate the characterization of intraocular pressure (IOP) spike after trabeculotomy, and after the combined procedure of phacoemulsification and aspiration (PEA) and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. METHODS Included in this study were 39 patients (53 eyes) with primary open-angle glaucoma with IOPs uncontrolled even with anti-glaucoma medication. We conducted a retrospective...

Twenty patients with previous unilateral traumatic hyphaema and 25 age-matched controls were studied. There was a progressive rise in intraocular pressure when the patient changed from the standing to the sitting position and then to the lying position in both groups. No control eye showed a rise greater than 2 mmHg when the subject changed from sitting to lying. However, 14 (70%) of the injure...

Surgical Indications • Congenital corneal disorders • Corneal dystrophies • Corneal degenerations • Corneal scarring/opacifi cation – Infection – Infl ammation – Trauma • Graft failure • Corneal decompensation – Pseudophakic – Aphakic – Iatrogenic – Dystrophic – Traumatic Surgical Instrumentation • Operating microscope • Microsuturing instruments – Fine-toothed 0.12-mm forceps – Fine-tip needle...