Non-traumatic open globe injuries: presenting characteristics and visual outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To describe clinical characteristics and visual outcomes of non-traumatic open globe injuries.

Setting

A level 1 trauma centre in a large urban medical centre.

Design

Retrospective study.

Methods

Charts of non-traumatic open globe patients admitted to MHH-TMC from 1/2010 to 3/2015 were reviewed for demographics, cause, clinical characteristics, visual acuity (VA) and enucleation.

Results

Thirty eyes were included: 15 (50%) were males with a mean age of 47 (±28) years. All presented with zone 1 injury. Twenty-five (83%) had a perforated corneal ulcer. Presenting VA was count fingers (n = 3, 10%) to NLP (n = 6, 20%). Twenty-four (80%) involved infection, 5 (17%) congenital, 3 (10%) chemical burn and 2 (7%) neurotrophic. Conjunctival injection (n = 

SUBMITTER: Gross AW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9674630 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature