OBJECTIVES To determine the recent incidence of eye injury due to sport in Scotland, identify any trend, and establish which sports are responsible for most injury? The type of injury and final visual outcome is also evaluated. METHODS A prospective observational study of ocular injuries sustained during sport was performed over a one year period. Only patients requiring hospital admission we...

OBJECTIVE To determine the visual outcome and its prognostic factors in patients presenting with ocular war injuries. METHODS This descriptive, observational study was conducted at the Combined Military Hospital, Peshawar, Pakistan, from June 2012 to March 2016, and comprised soldiers with ocular war injuries. Informed consent was obtained from all participants. A predesigned proforma was use...

Ocular trauma can be caused by road traffic accidents, falls, assaults, or work-related accidents. Enucleation is often indicated after ocular injury or for the treatment of intraocular tumors, severe ocular infections, and painful blind eyes. Rehabilitation of an enucleated socket without an intraocular implant or with an inappropriately sized implant can result in superior sulcus deepening, e...

BACKGROUND Increases in intracranial pressure (ICP) after head trauma require a rapid recognition to allow for adequate treatments. The aim of this study was to determine whether dilation of the optic nerve sheath, as detected by ocular ultrasound at the bedside, could reliably identify increases in ICP assessed with an intraparenchymal probe in adult head trauma patients. METHODS Eleven head...

BACKGROUND The objective of this study was to evaluate risk factors associated with eyeball loss and ambulatory vision loss on emergent examination of patients with ocular trauma. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of 1,875 patients hospitalized in a single tertiary referral center between January 2003 and December 2007. Emergent examinations included a history of trauma, elapsed time be...

AIMS To identify the prevalence of psychiatric and adjustment problems after ocular trauma and those factors related to a poor outcome. METHODS 47 patients were assessed by structured interview, of whom 45 satisfactorily completed three standardised self report measures of psychological functioning, subjective distress, and social adjustment. RESULTS 33% of patients displayed psychiatric "c...

purpose: to describe a complicated case of traumatic carotid-cavernous fistula (ccf) and our management strategy. case report: a 13-year-old patient was referred one month following a car accident and facial trauma with severe proptosis, chemosis and limitation of ocular movement. presence of murmur and an enlarged superior ophthalmic vein on orbital imaging suggested an arteriovenous fistula. ...

OBJECTIVE To report severe ocular injuries caused by pointed door handles in children. DESIGN Noncomparative, interventional, retrospective case series. METHODS Clinical records of 15 patients who sustained severe ocular injuries from door handles were reviewed for place of trauma, presenting symptoms and signs, surgical procedures performed, and final outcome. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Traum...

PURPOSE To review the frequency and cause of traumatic enucleation at the University of Wisconsin. METHODS A 12-year retrospective chart review (2000-2012) from the University of Wisconsin Hospital and Clinics of patients who underwent enucleation following ocular trauma with specimens submitted to the University of Wisconsin Eye Pathology Laboratory. RESULTS A total of 188 eyes enucleated ...

In this study, we report a 26-year-old female case of Niemann-Pick disease type C in association with Fuchs heterochromic iridocyclitis who was admitted with the complaint of ocular pain and redness following trauma. She had mild inflammatory signs and also vertical ocular motility limitations.