A Case of Loss of LASIK Flap Due to Accidental Trauma.
- Author:
Chul Woo KIM
1
;
Jae Ho KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Flap loss;
LASIK
- MeSH:
Basketball;
Cornea;
Corneal Transplantation;
Humans;
Keratomileusis, Laser In Situ*;
Lasers, Excimer;
Male;
Postoperative Care;
Wound Healing;
Young Adult
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
2001;42(5):788-792
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
PURPOSE: Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis(LASIK) is a preferred method to excimer laser photore-fractive keratectomy. In our paper, we insist that postoperative care, especially to avoid postoperative trauma. is considered to be important. CASE: A 22-years old boy was transferred into our hospital due to injuried left eye during playing basketball. His eye was received LASIK(OD: -7.00 Ds=-1.00 Dc Ax 50, OS: -8.00 Ds=-1.00 Dc Ax167) 1 years ago and then loss of LASIK flap developed due to this trauma. Injuried left eye of his was irrigated and then he weared therapeutic contact lens. RESULT: After wound healing, hazziness of traumatic cornea developed. He received lamellar keratoplasty for flap loss and corneal hazziness after postoperative accidental trauma. After receiving lamellar kerato-plasty, he maintains relatively good visual acuity(0.5 X -4.00 Dsph with K-840). CONCLUSION: As to review personel experience of the authors-lamellar keratoplasty for a flap loss and corneal hazziness after postopertive accidental trauma, we consider that it is an important vision-related complication of LASIK in the life and we report this unusual late complicated case with a review of available literature.
