• If transplantation involves the full thickness of the cornea (as in penetrating keratoplasty, or PKP), achievement of full visual potential may take up to 18 months because of changing refraction with wound healing and after suture removal. (merckmanuals.com)
  • We performed a penetrating keratoplasty at the left eye. (biomedcentral.com)
  • 1 ] On the contrary, block excision in toto with tectonic penetrating keratoplasty is considered the therapy of choice by some microsurgeon in such cases [ 1 ], providing that the excision (and thus the involvement of the cystic extension) does not exceed 150°-or five clock hours-of the circumference of the ciliary body region, in order to prevent postsurgical ocular hypotony. (biomedcentral.com)
  • However, to prevent amblyopia and provide visual rehabilitation a penetrating keratoplasty (PKP) of the right eye was recommended. (eyerounds.org)
  • PPMD patients with bilateral, corneal opacities that can affect vision, descemet's membrane endothelial keratoplasty or penetrating keratoplasty are the treatments of choice to improve vision and to avoid amblyopia. (mdwiki.org)
  • Limbal stem cell deficiency (LSCD) can result in blindness in one or both eyes and has a poor prognosis for penetrating keratoplasty. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • He had a history of penetrating ocular injury with uveal prolapse to the left eye (OS) following a road traffic accident 4 years before presentation, for which primary repair was performed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Any history of penetrating ocular trauma or surgery, positive treponemal syphilis serology, or evidence of sarcoidosis needs to be excluded prior to making diagnosis of VKH. (medscape.com)
  • Bacteria may gain entry into the eye via corneal or scleral trauma (surgical or accidental) or hematogenously. (medscape.com)
  • Hospital based studies of eye trauma indicate that about two thirds of those affected are male, predominantly children and young adults with injuries by sticks, stones, and metallic objects being the most. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • The most common places of trauma was in the home and school, and the commonest activity at occurrence of injuries was playing and fighting. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • The frequency of ocular trauma amongst children attending Mulago Hospital is high, one in every five children seen at the eye clinics had ocular trauma. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • Ocular trauma is damage to the eye as a result of mechanical, electrical, thermal, or chemical energy [1]. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • In a few surveys trauma was listed as a cause (3.2-5.5%) of bilateral blindness [3]. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • So the aim of this study was to record the frequency, features and causes of ocular trauma in children at Mulago National Referral Hospital Eye Department. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • Ocular trauma resulting from paintball injury. (medscape.com)
  • Examiner led me down the trauma path as he said that the fine scar was indeed from a penetrating injury. (mrcophth.com)
  • To protect the eye from inadvertent trauma after transplantation, the patient wears shields, glasses, or sunglasses. (merckmanuals.com)
  • In four of these cases, the cause of hyphema was trauma and remaining case was caused by phacoclastic uveitis in a dog with bilateral hypermature cataract. (scielo.br)
  • Hospital based studies of eye trauma indicate that about two thirds of those affected are male, predominantly children and young adults with injuries by sticks, stones, and metallic objects being the most.Objective: To examine the frequency, pattern and causes of ocular trauma among children at Mulago hospital using a hospital based descriptive cross- sectional study. (bvsalud.org)
  • The images are reviewed by the on-call radiology resident, as well as the ED resident and trauma surgeon, who found a left hip dislocation, an acetabular fracture, and two right lower rib fractures, with no other obvious injuries. (emdocs.net)
  • However, it is important to remember that a single CT is only a "snapshot," and patients with serious blunt trauma may have occult injuries that destabilize later. (emdocs.net)
  • Bladder injuries in trauma are relatively rare. (emdocs.net)
  • Suspicion should be high for GU injuries in pelvic trauma. (emdocs.net)
  • The most common mechanism triggering the bleeding event is trauma (e.g., closed head injury) causing a tearing injury to the extracerebral "bridging" veins. (lecturio.com)
  • Head injuries can be classified as open (penetrating) or closed (blunt), and primary (from the initial trauma) or secondary (indirect brain injury), and range from mild to severe and life-threatening. (lecturio.com)
  • In a casualty with progressive respiratory distress and known or suspected torso trauma, consider a tension pneumothorax and decompress the chest on the side of the injury with a 14-gauge, 3.25 inch needle/catheter unit inserted in the second intercostal space at the midclavicular line. (wikem.org)
  • There was no history of left eye surgery, trauma or chemical injury. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • This course will focus on the patterns of childhood trauma and measures to reduce the mortality and morbidity of these devastating injuries. (netce.com)
  • Facial trauma may result in injuries ranging from mild bruising to severe fractures, leading to irreversible sequelae and sometimes life-threatening complications. (bvsalud.org)
  • The number of ways that TBI can present is very wide, but it is important to gain as much information as possible about the nature of the trauma, as this will help guide management of the TBI, and other associated injuries. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • The initial assessment/treatment will be part of a major trauma presentation, and will rarely be identified as a purely isolated head injury pre-hospital. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • Keratoconus is a slowly progressive thinning and bulging of the cornea, usually bilateral, beginning between. (merckmanuals.com)
  • A circular pledgett, 7.0 mm in diameter, was soaked in 0.3 cc of a 1.0 N solution of NaOH and allowed to sit on the central cornea for one minute following which the cornea was thoroughly irrigated with BSS.34 The eye then received one drop each of Occuflox, Cyclogyl and Pred-forte eye drops and was patched with Tobradex ointment. (org.pk)
  • Peters anomaly is a rare eye malformation resulting in congenital corneal opacity and is part of a spectrum of developmental anomalies of the cornea, iris and lens termed "anterior segment dysgenesis. (eyerounds.org)
  • TP and TP-H do not penetrate the cornea, while OT-551 does effectively penetrate and travels to the back of the eye, preserving visual acuity and preserving normal and low light luminance in dry AMD smokers and non-smoker patients. (frontiersin.org)
  • Single institution (Cornea and External Disease Service, Moorfields Eye Hospital). (entokey.com)
  • Consecutive cases were selected from the PUK patients followed between 1992 and 2012 in Professor John Dart's clinic, Cornea and External Disease Service at Moorfields Eye Hospital, London, United Kingdom. (entokey.com)
  • Sympathetic ophthalmia is a rare chronic bilateral diffuse granulomatous intraocular inflammation following penetrating injury or surgery to one eye. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Corneal transplantation to replace scarred corneal tissue following alkali injury is complicated by a higher incidence of rejection because of the presence of corneal pannus.18 A large part of the post injury treatment plan is dedicated to decreasing inflammation and preventing the development of neovascularization using topical immunosuppressive and antiangiogenic agents. (org.pk)
  • Molecular evidence for the role of inflammation in Dry Eye Disease. (auckland.ac.nz)
  • The intraocular pressure by applanation tonometry was 12 mmHg and 10 mmHg at the right and left eye, respectively. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Case 1 sustained a shotgun injury at 2 metres with multiple pellet scatter injuries, including penetrating eye injury, orbital fractures and pellets within the superior orbital fissure. (currinda.com)
  • 2D-fluoroscopic navigation is a safe tool providing high accuracy of percutaneous screw placement for pelvic ring fractures, but in cases of a bilateral iliosacral screw fixation an increased risk for screw misplacement was observed. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Between August 2004 and December 2007, 442 patients with pelvic injuries (pelvic ring and acetabular fractures) were treated at our department. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Most skull fractures are rarely serious on their own but suggest that severe injury to the brain may also be present. (medictests.com)
  • Gunshot injuries and motorcycle accidents are the most common causes of facial fractures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Lacerations followed by neurologic and orthopedic injuries often occur concomitantly with facial fractures 2 . (bvsalud.org)
  • 1.6 million people go blind from these injuries, 2.3 million suffer bilateral low vision and 19 million remain with unilateral or low vision. (southsudanmedicaljournal.com)
  • Hyphema presented as a unilateral (14 cases out of 20) or bilateral (6/20) disorder in dogs and cats and extension of hemorrhage varied from minimal to diffuse. (scielo.br)
  • O hifema em cães e gatos teve uma apresentação unilateral (14 casos dos 20) ou bilateral (6/20), e a extensão da hemorragia variou de mínima a difusa. (scielo.br)
  • The use of limbal stem cell transplants first started with the advent of CLAU (conjunctival limbal autografting) wherein two donor lenticules (three clock hours each) of limbus and adjacent conjunctiva were harvested from the unaffected eye in patients with unilateral LSCD, and these were then transplanted to the eye with LSCD. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • 4 ] Previous histological examination of eyes with epithelial ingrowth after open globe injury revealed a diffuse epithelial invasion in 12%, and a cystic epithelial downgrowth in 88% of the cases [ 1 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Diffuse Axonal Injury is a Primary type of TBI. (freezingblue.com)
  • Bilateral corneal opacities at 2 days of age. (eyerounds.org)
  • Bilateral corneal opacities during examination under anesthesia. (eyerounds.org)
  • Small bilateral corneal opacities with associated iridocorneal adhesions in a patient with Peters anomaly. (eyerounds.org)
  • Discussion on causes of dry eyes - local and systemic. (mrcophth.com)
  • Jain SS, Rao P, Nayak P, Kothari K. Posterior capsular dehiscence following blunt injury causing delayed onset lens particle glaucoma. (medscape.com)
  • Bilateral posterior polymorphous dystrophy (PPD). (mrcophth.com)
  • 2) corneal perforation during laser-assisted blepharoplasty, which may be supported by the presence of pigmented cells on the posterior surface of Descemet´s membrane, pointing to a possible iris injury. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The decision was made to observe the left eye as the corneal opacification had improved at his 1 month visit and there was an excellent view to the posterior pole. (eyerounds.org)
  • Posterior polymorphous corneal dystrophy is also a dominantly inherited bilateral disease, but can have an asymmetric presentation. (reviewofoptometry.com)
  • Depot formulations to sustain periocular drug delivery to the posterior eye segment. (auckland.ac.nz)
  • Retrospective consecutive patients diagnosed with ocular inflammatory manifestations within 8 weeks of receiving COVID-19 vaccination who presented to a tertiary eye care centre in South India. (qxmd.com)
  • Ninety-eight eyes of 67 patients presenting with ocular inflammatory manifestations within 8 weeks following COVID-19 vaccination were studied. (qxmd.com)
  • Aims The aim of this observational study was to report the distribution of glycoprotein B (gB) genotypes in the eyes of cytomegalovirus (CMV) positive patients with Posner-Schlossman syndrome (PSS), and to investigate their clinical characteristics and outcomes. (bmj.com)
  • Overall, 9.1% (1/11) of the patients in the gB type 1 group and 66.7% (2/3) of the patients in the gB type 3 group had bilateral attacks (p=0.093). (bmj.com)
  • Bilateral attack was predominant among patients with gB genotype 3. (bmj.com)
  • Independently, Vogt, Koyanagi, and Harada described several patients during a 20-year period with bilateral uveitis , exudative retinal detachments, neurologic abnormalities, and disorders of the integument. (medscape.com)
  • Between August 2004 and December 2007, 44 of 442 patients with pelvic injuries were included for closed reduction and percutaneous screw fixation of disrupted pelvic ring lesions using an optoelectronic 2D-fluoroscopic based navigation system. (biomedcentral.com)
  • and (3) elderly smoker or non-smoker AMD patients at risk for vision loss, prevented by daily eye drops of OT-551. (frontiersin.org)
  • Six eyes of 5 patients with PUK and associated anterior scleritis that had a history of ocular alkali injury. (entokey.com)
  • Patients were identified among PUK patients seen at Moorfields Eye Hospital over a 20-year period. (entokey.com)
  • This is a descriptive case series of patients with late-onset PUK following alkali ocular injury. (entokey.com)
  • The medical records of 5 patients presenting with signs and symptom of delayed-onset PUK following ocular alkali injury were reviewed. (entokey.com)
  • The best way to manage these patients is to be aware of the possibility of bowel injury, re-examine them frequently, and re-image them or even send them for ex-lap if their condition changes . (emdocs.net)
  • A 25-year-old chronic smoker with no known co-morbidities presented in May 2019 with a 10-day history of right eye (OD) redness, discomfort, photophobia and reduced vision. (biomedcentral.com)
  • A male, 65 years of age, came with chief complaints of pain and redness in left eye (OS). (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • The pseudopterygium had an inflamed surface with an overlying epithelial defect (Fig. 1B), which was resulting in the eye pain and redness. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • Defining features of early-stage VKH include bilateral serous retinal detachments, or, characteristic uveitis with at least 2 of the following neurologic findings: headache, tinnitus, dysacusis, meningismus, or cerebrospinal fluid pleocytosis. (medscape.com)
  • It is a progressive, late-onset, bilateral disease with autosomal dominant inheritance. (reviewofoptometry.com)
  • It is typically an autosomal dominant, bilateral disease that typically presents toward the end of the first decade of life with symptoms of recurrent corneal erosions and decreased vision. (uiowa.edu)
  • To describe facial gunshot injuries with orbital involvement, their management considerations, and highlight good practice recommendations from the literature. (currinda.com)
  • Each of the three cases of facial gunshot injury presented with a different pattern of ophthalmic involvement. (currinda.com)
  • A contrast-enhanced computed tomography of the thorax showed right upper lobe consolidation with tree-in-bud changes, bilateral lung atelectasis, subpleural nodule, mild right pleural effusion and mediastinal lymphadenopathy. (biomedcentral.com)
  • TBI's can range from mild (brief change in mental status or consciousness) to severe (extended period of unconsciousness or amnesia after the injury). (freezingblue.com)
  • At First Limit Medical Supplies , we sympathize that living with certain medical conditions and disorders or recovering from injuries and surgeries can be obstinate to cope with. (wgc2010.sk)
  • Bilateral prolifeative diabetic retinopathy with loose scatter laser scars. (mrcophth.com)
  • A multitude of bony and soft tissue ophthalmic injuries may occur following gunshot due to the variability of tissue injury caused by projectiles, based on their trajectory, kinetic energy, and tissue interaction. (currinda.com)
  • The Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) also causes obsessiveness, which she turned to advantage of obsessively studying anything that caught her interest. (kpaddock.com)
  • Before releasing any tourniquet on a casualty who has been resuscitated for hemorrhagic shock, ensure a positive response to resuscitation efforts (i.e., a peripheral pulse normal in character and normal mentation if there is no traumatic brain injury (TBI). (wikem.org)
  • Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is common, and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • Sometimes one eye may change color following disease or injury. (wikipedia.org)
  • Bilateral, multifocal serous detachments in a patient with Vogt-Koyanagi-Harada disease. (medscape.com)
  • He then received advanced training in treating corneal and external eye disease and performing keratorefractive surgery through a fellowship at UT Southwestern Medical Center. (utswmed.org)
  • Randomized, controlled, double-masked, multicenter, pilot study evaluating safety and efficacy of intranasal neurostimulation for dry eye disease. (auckland.ac.nz)
  • TFOS DEWS II and beyond - utilising evidence base to inform the management of dry eye disease. (auckland.ac.nz)
  • 45 years) or with bilateral disease at any age are at elevated risk for additional breast cancer, as are their female first-degree relatives (FDRs). (cdc.gov)
  • Smith D, Wrenn K, Stack LB. The epidemiology and diagnosis of penetrating eye injuries. (medscape.com)
  • Computed tomography in the diagnosis of occult open-globe injuries. (utswmed.org)
  • The malplacements predominantly occurred in bilateral overlapping screw fixation. (biomedcentral.com)
  • An injectable solution containing chondroitin sulfate and sodium hyaluronate is approved by the FDA to protect the eye during cataract surgery. (medlineplus.gov)
  • Meningitis, encephalitis, and damage to cranial nerves and blood vessels may occur days to weeks after injury and could result in an inter-facility transfer by critical care ambulance. (medictests.com)
  • The secondary injury refers to neuronal injury that occurs as a result of the many effects that occur as a result of the TBI or other injuries e.g. hypoxia from unconsciousness. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • This differentiation is a little simplistic, as it is being recognised that some 'primary injury' continues for a period of time after the actual impact, whilst secondary injury processes may begin to occur nearly straight away. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • CT imaging identified the presence of bilateral intra-orbital metallic foreign bodies abutting the medial aspect of the left globe and nasolacrimal duct and at the right orbital apex in proximity to the superior orbital fissure and optic nerve. (currinda.com)
  • A single penetrating wound was event on the left nasal bridge, medial to the nasojugal fold. (currinda.com)
  • The patient, who had undergone a strabism operation 45 years earlier, revealed that she had indeed never seen optimally out of her left eye (amblyopia e strabismo). (biomedcentral.com)
  • The course of the frontal branch of the facial nerve passes through the temple and forehead, placing this nerve at risk of injury at the time of surgical dissection. (medscape.com)
  • Dental prosthesis, wounds and injuries, operative surgical procedures. (bvsalud.org)
  • Defects of the oral and maxillofacial region often result from traumatic injuries, surgical tumor resection, and congenital deformities 1 . (bvsalud.org)
  • Although a distinction is frequently made between heterochromia that affects an eye completely or only partially (sectoral heterochromia), it is often classified as either genetic (due to mosaicism or congenital) or acquired, with mention as to whether the affected iris or portion of the iris is darker or lighter. (wikipedia.org)
  • Hemalatha C, Norhafizah H, Shatriah I. Bilateral spontaneous rupture of anterior lens capsules in a middle-aged woman. (medscape.com)
  • Low (X25) photomicrograph of phacoanaphylactic reaction to lens protein in eye enucleated with penetrating injury. (medscape.com)
  • Effects of Thalidomide on alkali injury model of rabbit corneal neovascularization. (org.pk)
  • To report delayed-onset peripheral ulcerative keratitis (PUK) following alkali injury. (entokey.com)
  • The examination using confocal microscopy confirmed a corneal perforation at the left eye and revealed corneal epithelial ingrowth capped with scarred stroma in both eyes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • To prevent this, CLET (cultivated limbal epithelial transplantation) was introduced, which entailed harvesting one to two clock hours of limbal stem cells from the donor eye, which could then be 'grown' into a sheet of epithelial cells ready for transplantation to the eye with LSCD. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • Peters anomaly has a wide spectrum of severity and corneal opacification is bilateral in approximately 80% of cases [3]. (eyerounds.org)
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  • A 49-year-old patient presented with a positive Seidel test of unclear origin at her left eye, as well as a sharply defined anterior-stromal corneal scar at both eyes. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Examinations at the slit lamp revealed a dry eye syndrome as well as a sharply defined anterior-stromal corneal scar at both eyes, located paracentrally at the right (Fig. 1 a) and left eye (Fig. 1 b). (biomedcentral.com)
  • Hyphema (hemorrhage within the anterior chamber of the eye) can be caused by several mechanisms and can easily be detected in routine ophthalmic or necroscopic examination as discolored red eye(s). (scielo.br)
  • is defined as hemorrhage within the anterior chamber of the eye ( Miller 2008 Miller P.E.2008. (scielo.br)
  • I also find trypan blue indispensable for the capsulorhexis in pediatric eyes, since the dye (in this case favorably) reduces the elasticity of the stretchy anterior capsule (Figure 1). (crstoday.com)
  • The eyelids act to protect the anterior surface of the globe from local injury. (medscape.com)
  • The left eye shows a nasal pseudopterygium (Fig. 1A, black arrows) with an inflamed ocular surface. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • Visual and ocular morbidity in severe open-globe injuries presenting to a regional eye centre in New Zealand. (auckland.ac.nz)
  • Periorbital ecchymosis: especially around the medial aspect of the eye sockets. (medictests.com)
  • Upward and medial movements were absent in the left eye. (docksci.com)
  • Other eye showed a pigment epithelial line but no other evidence of keratoconus. (mrcophth.com)
  • This technique, while mostly successful in avoiding iatrogenic LSCD in the donor eye, requires a stem cell laboratory to cultivate the epithelial cells, which is difficult to set up and expensive. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • Both TP and TP-H topically penetrate and function in skin or mucosa, protecting and treating radiation burns and hair loss or smoking-induced cutaneous vascular dysfunction. (frontiersin.org)
  • This glossary provides information and definitions of medical terms associated with brain injury and rehabilitation to help you or your family. (brainline.org)
  • Kalamkar C, Mukherjee A. Incidence, clinical profile, and short-term outcomes of post-traumatic glaucoma in pediatric eyes. (medscape.com)
  • There was no evidence of glaucoma in either eye. (eyerounds.org)
  • The primary injury refers to the damage to neuronal tissue that is done at the time of impact. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)
  • A 49-year-old female patient was referred because of new corneal scars of unclear origin in both eyes, after presenting with reduction in visual acuity (left worse than right), first noticed 6 months earlier. (biomedcentral.com)
  • The best-corrected decimal visual acuity was 0.6 (-2.50/-0.75/1°) at the right eye and 0.4 (-2.75/-1.75/4°) at the left eye. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Best corrected visual acuity was 6/24,N36 in right eye (OD) due to the presence of a choroidal neovascular membrane at the macula. (surajeyeinstitute.org)
  • Waardenburg syndrome - a syndrome in which heterochromia is expressed as a bilateral iris hypochromia in some cases. (wikipedia.org)
  • A localized autoimmune response may, however, be involved in the pathogenesis of these cases, as seen in an animal model of chemical injury or in late mustard gas keratitis. (entokey.com)
  • In humans, an increase of melanin production in the eyes indicates hyperplasia of the iris tissues, whereas a lack of melanin indicates hypoplasia. (wikipedia.org)
  • The overall concentration of these pigments, the ratio between them, variation in the distribution of pigment in the layers of the stroma of the iris and the effects of light scattering all play a part in determining eye color. (wikipedia.org)
  • The lighter eye is typically regarded as the affected eye as it usually shows iris hypoplasia. (wikipedia.org)
  • Following initial resuscitation, stabilisation' and assessment, a hierarchical approach is required in the management of ophthalmic injuries. (currinda.com)
  • Tauranga Eye Specialists Clinic and Day Stay Theatre, hold contracts with the Bay of Plenty Health Board to provide Ophthalmic Public Outpatient Appointments and Public Elective Surgery. (health.nz)
  • Bilateral megalocornea with Haab's striae, RE Goniotomy scar and trabeculectomy. (mrcophth.com)
  • Case 3 presented to the ophthalmology outpatient department five years following a self-inflicted submental gun shot injury, seeking opinion on secondary reconstruction of the left sided orbital anatomy to treat persistent epiphora and undesirable cosmesis. (currinda.com)
  • One main focus of the management the patient with TBI is to prevent these secondary injuries from occurring. (thegasmanhandbook.co.uk)