INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to characterise and describe the epidemiology of all eye injuries presenting to the National University Hospital (NUH). MATERIALS AND METHODS A prospective study was conducted over a 7-week period (11/4/2005 to 29/5/2005) on all ophthalmic trauma patients seen by the Department of Ophthalmology in NUH. Data on patient presentation, source of injury a...

-This paper focuses on the eye injuries related to airbags during frontal crashes of motor vehicles. This investigation will address the deformation of the eye part during the impact. The objectives of this work are to observe the behaviour of the eye during the impact, and also try to analysis the simulated stresses and strains to clinically observed injuries. Two eye models were generated by ...

INTRODUCrION Trauma is the commonest cause of eye disease. In the five years up to August 1969, 376 perforating eye injuries were treated in the Eye & Ear Clinic, Royal Victoria Hospital, the main causes being accidents and play in children, and road traffic accidents in adults. Only twenty-one were due to assault, usually with the list or broken glass, one was due to a butt with the head and o...

AIM To study the epidemiology of ocular injuries in patients with major trauma in the UK, determining the incidence and causes of ocular injuries, and their association with facial fractures. METHODS A retrospective analysis of the Trauma Audit Research Network database from 1989 to 2004, looking at data from 39,073 patients with major trauma. RESULTS Of the 39,073 patients with major traum...

PURPOSE To determine the epidemiological characteristics of work-related eye injury in representative southwest region of China. METHODS Patients with eye injuries treated at the Ninth People's Hospital of Chongqing from 1 January 2014 to 31 December 2014 were included in the current study. All patients completed a comprehensive examination and interview. Demographic characteristics and injur...

OBJECTIVE To describe the spectrum of ocular injuries and associated visual morbidity in the pediatric and adolescent population caused by bottle rockets. METHODS Retrospective review of consecutive medical records of patients 18 years or younger seen during a recent 4-year period. Outcome measures were ocular injuries at time of visit, interventions required, visual acuity at most recent fol...

the biobreeding- diabetes prone (bb-dp) rat spontaneously develops an autoimmune diabetic syndrome that is dependent on the rt1 u major histocompatibility complex (mhc) haplotype and homozygosity for an allele at the lymphopenia (lyp) locus. lyp mutation is responsible for a peripheral t -lymphopenia. there are other genetic loci contributing to diabetes susceptibility in this strain. bb rats c...

PURPOSE Repairing tendon injuries with recombinant human platelet-derived growth factor-BB has potential for improving surgical outcomes. Augmentation of sutures, a critical component of surgical tendon repair, by coating with growth factors may provide a clinically useful therapeutic device for improving tendon repair. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to (a) coat Vicryl sutures with a ...

Eye injuries come at a high cost to society and are avoidable. Ocular blast injuries can be primary, from the blast wave itself; secondary, from fragments carried by the blast wind; tertiary; due to structural collapse or being thrown against a fixed object; or quaternary, from burns and indirect injuries. Ballistic eye protection significantly reduces the incidence of eye injuries and should b...