purpose: to introduce the technique and results of vitrectomy surgery with removal of cyclitic membrane by placement of radial cuts over the membrane in traumatized eyes. methods: vitrectomy in 8 eyes of 8 patients after penetrating ocular trauma revealed that fibrovascular tissue was present over the pars plicata. to remove the membrane, radial cuts were placed over the membrane first and then...

Eye Movement 2 ABSTRACT Williams Christine J. The purpose of this literature review was to investigate the effectiveness of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) with traumatized individuals primarily diagnosed with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). In this investigation an overview of Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) as well as other approaches in the tr...

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BACKGROUND An eye injury that causes no light perception (NLP) typically carries an unfavorable prognosis, and NLP because of trauma is a common indication for enucleation. With advances in vitreoretinal surgical techniques, however, the indication for enucleation is no longer determined by posttrauma NLP vision alone. There are limited studies in the literature to analyse the outcome of NLP ey...

Sympathetic ophthalmia (SO) is a rare bilateral, diffuse granulomatous panuveitis that occurs following penetrating trauma or intraocular surgery to one eye, the exciting eye. The fellow non-traumatized sympathizing eye also shows similar inflammatory response usually with mutton-fat KPs suggesting involvement of autoimmune response [1]. Though the time from ocular injury to onset of SO was sai...

BACKGROUND An ocular injury can lead to secondary glaucoma in the traumatized eye in 3% to 20% of cases. Literature on the risk of developing elevated intraocular pressure in the nontraumatized fellow eye is scant. Clinicians treating ocular traumas should also bear in mind sympathetic ophthalmia, a rare bilateral granulomatous panuveitis following accidental or surgical trauma to 1 eye. CASE...

A 40-year-old man was complaining of severe left ocular pain and headache for the past 2 months. His left eye was traumatized and rendered blind about 20 years ago. He had no other medical problems and his preoperative laboratory tests were nonspecific. Evisceration of the left eye was performed for pain control and cosmetic improvement. However, postoperative progressive and prolonged eyelid s...

David Kasner, MD (1927-2001), used his extensive dissections of eye bank eyes and experiences in teaching cataract surgery to resident physicians to realize that excision of vitreous when present in the anterior chamber of eyes undergoing cataract surgery was preferable to prior intraoperative procedures. Noting that eyes tolerated his maneuvers, he then performed planned subtotal open-sky vitr...

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 ...

t e e t d a u p a c s i b t r a b A w O ver the past decade there have been significant advances in the establishment of evidence-based treatments for traumatized children. Severely and multiply traumatized children, however, often have complex and difficult-to-treat clinical presentations. There is a perception among many clinicians, foster parents, and child protective service workers that th...