red eye due to leech in the eye

Red Eye due to Leech in the Eye

A 65–yrs-old man referred for an ocular discomfort and red eye. The clinical diagnosis was leech in the left eye and its species confirmed as being Limnatis nilotica. Ocular leech infestation should be considered in patients with a history of swimming or washing their face in streams and lakes. Attention should also be given to ocular leech infestation in the differential diagnosis of ocular tr...

eye bleeding due to leech infestation in an ischemic heart- disease patient

Eye Bleeding Due to Leech Infestation in an Ischemic Heart- Disease Patient

A 49-year-old Iranian male with diagnosis of ischemic heart disease (IHD) and arterial hypertension (AH) was admitted at Emergency Ward of Vase'ee Hospital of Sabzevar, Iran. As well, the patient had red eye and left eye bleeding. On eye examination, leech infestation was found to be the cause of the eye bleeding. In the endemic regions in a patient presenting red eye and eye bleeding, leech in...

Automatic red eye detection

The red eye artifacts are troublesome problem of consumer photos. Correction of red eyes without user intervention is an important task. The novel method of automatic detection of red eyes is proposed. This approach is based on application of color information via 3D tables and edge information via directional edge detection filters. For classification a cascade of classifiers including AdaBoos...

Painful Red Eye

A 27-year-old man presented to the emergency department (ED) with a complaint of left eye pain and redness for three days. The eye was initially watery and pruritic and a day later had become completely red and painful. He had no vision changes or antecedent trauma and denied any constitutional or upper respiratory symptoms. Vital signs were normal. The left upper eyelid showed ecchymosis. Pupi...

Red-green blindness confined to one eye.

We report experimental studies of an individual with different types of color vision in his two eyes. The left eye is typically deuteranomalous, with good wavelength discrimination. The right eye is typically deuteranopic. both in its wavelength discrimination and in its color matching functions. Luminosity curves of left and right eyes are indistinguishable, both being within the normal range....