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Abstract #23500 Published in IGR 11-2
Blunt non-perforating ocular trauma patterns of ocular damage and final visual outcome
Zeb A; Awan A; Hamid A; Uppal F; Salam AMedical Forum Monthly 2009; 20: 33-35
OBJECTIVE: To study the causes of blunt ocular trauma m a closect-globe, its various clinical signs on presentation and final visual outcome. METHOD: A prospective analytic study of one hundred cases of the blunt ocular trauma conducted in the Department of Ophthalmology, Ayub Teaching Hospital, Abbottabad. RESULTS: In one hundred cases. Seventy-nine (79%) were males and twenty-one (21%) were females. Hyphaema occurred in sixty-two cases (93.9%),mydriasis in twenty-nine cases (43.9%), traumatic iritis/uveitis fifty three (80.3%), and seventeen (25.8%) patients developed traumatic cataract. Traumatic Glaucoma occurred in 3 % cases. Vitreous haemorrhage occurred in nineteen (63.3%) and seventeen (56.7%) cases were with retinal heamorrhages, commotio retinae was seen in ten (33.3%) post-traumatic optic atrophy occurred in eight (26.7%) and retinal detachment in six cases. Anterior segment involvement have better visual prognoses 89.4%, compared to posterior segment trauma which is 26.7%. CONCLUSION: A high percentage of youth and children suffered eye injuries, home setting and sports-related injuries were more common. Hyphaemas and lens injuries have relative little affect on the final visual outcome as compared to the posterior segments injuries.
A. Zeb. Eye Department, Frontier Medical College Abbottabad, Pakistan.
Classification:
9.4.7 Glaucomas associated with ocular trauma (Part of: 9 Clinical forms of glaucomas > 9.4 Glaucomas associated with other ocular and systemic disorders)