Traumatic Hyphema.
- Author:
Shin Dong KIM
1
;
Hae Soo NAM
;
Sung Hee LEE
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- MeSH: Bed Rest; Busan; Contusions; Humans; Hyphema*; Korea; Male; Medical Records; Outpatients; Telescopes
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1982;23(3):639-644
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
- Abstract: Among 135 ocular injuries with Hyphema that had been treated at the St. Benedict(Sung-Bun-Do) Hospital, Pusan, Korea between the period of July 1979 to June 1982, the medical records of 47 cases of pure contusion Hyphema were collected; there were 41 male, 6 femla and 10 were ambulatory, 37 were admitted, of whom, 10 underwent surgical evacuation. The out-patients were managed with uni-ocular patches or pin-hole spectacle; and all hospitalized cases were cared by complete bedrest with binocular eye-pads until blood clot absorbed, and then discharged by wearing pin-hole-spectacle too. All cases were followed-up by every other day till the day of disappearance of chamber cellularity. The clinical results of this treatment and some points of controversy were reviewed and disc ussed.
