DESCRIPTION A 38-year-old man was struck by a branch in the right eye while riding a quad bike between trees. In the emergency department he was documented to have a seemingly intact globe, but with a linear corneal laceration and a small hyphaemapresumablysecondarytoblunttrauma(figure1). There was no evidence of aqueous leakage after the application of fluorescein and the anterior chamber was ...

O trauma is a major cause of blindness worldwide and oculo-orbital trauma is one of the pathologies that require urgent radiological studies. Traumatic pathology of the orbit is often seen in the polytraumatized patients and can result in a wide spectrum of tissue lesions of the globe, optic nerve and adnexa, ranging from the relatively superficial to vision threatening. Depending on the imagin...

INTRODUCTION We performed an analytic and prospective study over a period of 12 months from January 2nd to December 31st, 2008, at the Gynaeco-Obstetric and Paediatric Hospital of Yaoundé, Cameroon. Our aim was to determine the prevalence and causes of unilateral blindness in school children aged 6 to 15 years. RESULTS Among the 1,266 children aged 6 to 15 years who were recruited, 60 present...

Eye trauma and blindness are common in the United States, with an incidence of over 2 million cases/year and 25 million blind adults, respectively. However, literature is surprisingly scarce on the potential confounding effect of eye trauma or blindness on the diagnosis of myasthenia gravis (MG), an autoimmune neuromuscular disease in which fluctuating ocular symptoms are the most distinguishin...

PURPOSE To evaluate bilateral myopia following blunt trauma to one eye. CASE REPORT Traumatic myopia is a rare transient situation which may be seen in the injured eye or both eyes after blunt ocular trauma. We examined one case with transient myopia in the left eye which had been exposed to a blunt ocular injury. Myopia was also observed in the right eye 12 hours after the trauma. The right ...

UNLABELLED OBIECTIVE: This study assesses the descriptive epidemiology of children with eye injuries presenting to the Emergency Department of a non exclusive Paediatric University Hospital - First Division of Ophthalmology of "Sapienza" University of Rome - over a period of 12 years. STUDY DESIGN A retrospective long term study of 12 years. PARTICIPANTS All paediatric patients (up to 14 ye...

OBJECTIVES To describe the current epidemiology of serious ocular trauma which necessitates admission to hospital so that health and safety strategies for the prevention of ocular injuries and their role within the national health strategy, The Health of the Nation, can be better informed. DESIGN A prospective observational study of all patients with ocular trauma admitted to hospital under t...

PU R P O S E. Ocular trauma is one of the main causes of visual reduction or loss, particularly in the younger population. ME T H O D S. In this prospective study the authors included 67 consecutive patients with ocular trauma secondary to motor vehicle accidents who were hospitalized in the Athens University Eye Clinic from September 1993 to December 1996. The mean follow-up time was 31 months...

BACKGROUND Open globe injuries (OGIs) account for 44% of the cost of ocular trauma within Australia. It is estimated that 90% of ocular trauma is preventable. However, there have been few epidemiological studies within Australia that have identified groups at risk of OGIs specifically. The aim of our study was to review the epidemiology of OGIs presenting to a tertiary referral eye hospital in ...