Explosive eye injuries: characteristics, traumatic mechanisms, and prognostic factors for poor visual outcomes.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Explosions can produce blast waves, high-speed medium, thermal radiation, and chemical spatter, leading to complex and compound eye injuries. However, few studies have comprehensively investigated the clinical features of different eye injury types or possible risk factors for poor prognosis.

Methods

We retrospectively reviewed all consecutive records of explosive eye injuries (1449 eyes in 1115 inpatients) in 14 tertiary referral hospitals in China over 12 years (between January 2008 and December 2019). Data on demographics, eye injury types, ocular findings, treatments, and factors affecting visual prognosis were extracted from a standardized database of eye injuries and statistically analyzed.

Results

Mechanical ocular trauma accounted for 94.00% of expl

SUBMITTER: Zhang Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9835351 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature