A study on 94 patients with the ocular injuries during 2000-2001 in Hue hospital has shown that the disease occurred in the man (women = 3,27/1). Injuries in the living activities was 52,2% followed by social injuries (26,8%), the results of treatment found that negative vision (17,39%), visionability of 3/10 (20,65%), 4/10-7/10 (22,83%) and 8/10 and more than (18,48%).
Eye Diseases ; Eye Injuries

The TASER(R) gun has been used as an alternative one instead of lethal weapons, but death following Taser gun use has been reported. In Korea, the case of eye injury by Taser gun was reported, but the case of Taser gun-related death has not been known. Recently we experienced a case of lethal stab injury after the use of Taser gun. On the basis of this case and current available articles, we need to be aware of the potential injury patterns in cases of death or injury associated with Taser gun.
Eye Injuries ; Korea ; Weapons

An epidemiological study was carried out in a large population with 12,484 subjects randomly enrolled (93.4% of 13310 people). Results showed a rate of eye trauma of 840/100,000 people per year (14,000 cases of eye injuries must be submitted to medical management) was 0.45% of population were affected by the sequela of eye trauma in agriculture. The most vulnerable subjects, the male/female ratio, the jobs and causative factors were investigated.
Epidemiology ; Eye Injuries

This paper introduced the epidemiological feature of optic injuries including age, sex, socioeconomic condition, lifestyle, incidence, prevalence, condition and time of optic injury (working accommodation, sport, traffic, war...) and outcomes of optic injuries, management and prevention. It should have collaboration of clinical physicians and epidemiologists.
Eye Injuries ; Epidemiology

Purpose: To determine the health-related quality of life of patients sustaining ocular injuries prognosticated to be visually disabling and to correlate baseline characteristics with quality of life indices. Methods: A prospective, questionnaire-based health-related quality of life study was conducted in a tertiary hospital in the Philippines among 33 patients prognosticated to have visually-disabling ocular injuries using the ocular trauma score (OTS). Clinical and demographic data were collected and quality of life indices were measured using the EuroQoL five-dimension five-level (EQ-5D-5L) questionnaire at baseline and on three subsequent follow-up visits. Data was analyzed by OTS and type of injury. Baseline characteristics were described and correlated with quality of life indices. Results: Of the 33 participants recruited at baseline, 26 were able to return to at least 1 of the 3 recommended follow-up visits. The median age of study participants upon admission was 35 years old with 31 (94%) being males. The patients were admitted at a median of 4 days from injury. Thirty-one (31) or 94% of the participants sustained open globe injuries, with 14 (42%) being penetrating lacerations and 10 (30%) classified as having intraocular foreign bodies. Most patients reported pain and discomfort (82%), problems in usual activities (70%), and anxiety and depression (70%) at baseline. Those with an OTS of 1 had lower median EQ index score (0.447) and EQ visual analog scale (VAS) score (56). A diagnosis of globe rupture was associated with lower median EQ index scores (0.448) and EQ VAS scores (56). EQ index and VAS scores were lowest at baseline. A statistically significantly increase in EQ VAS was seen from baseline to the first month of follow-up (p=0.01). Using univariate regression analysis, no statistically significant correlation between baseline characteristics and baseline quality of life indices was identified. Conclusion Health-related quality of life was lowest shortly after admission for management of ocular trauma and significantly improved at 1 month. Most patients reported pain and discomfort, problems in usual activities, and anxiety and depression. None of the clinical characteristics were shown to be significantly associated with quality of life indices, including visual acuity.
Eye Injuries ; Quality of Life

Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of the Classification and Regression Tree (CART) model in prognosticating visual outcomes of patients with open-globe injuries Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center, cohort study of patients with open-globe injuries seen over a two-year period. Purposive sampling of hospital medical records was done to collect data from both in- and out-patient cases. The CART algorithm was utilized to determine the predicted visual outcome for each case, and the accuracy of prognostication was measured by computing for sensitivity, specificity, positive predictive value, and negative predictive value. The area under the receiver operating characteristic curve was used to check its discriminatory capability. Results: A total of 65 eyes (65 patients) with the following diagnoses based on the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology (BETT) classification were included: penetrating eye injury (n=58), globe rupture (n=2), and intraocular foreign body (n=5). Majority were male patients (81.5%) in the 17-39 year age group (40%). The sensitivity and specificity of CART were 100% (95% CI 93.6 to 100%) and 77.8% (95% CI 40 to 97.2%), respectively, with an overall accuracy of 96.9% (95% CI 89.3 to 99.6%). Area under the curve (AUC) was statistically significant at 0.89 (95% CI 0.79 to 0.95), indicating that the CART model can discriminate vision survival versus no vision. Conclusion The CART model demonstrated high accuracy in prognosticating visual outcomes after an openglobe injury in the local setting. It may be used as a helpful tool to guide treatment decisions in open-globe injuries.
Eye Injuries, Penetrating

Background: Penetrating eye injury is common cause blind or many long-term complications later. One of the complications such as glaucoma in the eye. There were some research on glaucoma after penetrating eye injury, but no reports about the treatment of glaucoma. Objectives: To describe the clinical characteristics and assess the outcomes of surgery in the treatment of glaucoma after penetrating eye injury. Subjects and method: The author performed a prospective analysis of 32 eyes the underwent surgery causes by glaucoma after penetrating eye injury at Trauma department of National Institute of Ophthalmology. Follow up period: 6 months. Data was processed by using medical statistics methods on SPSS 10.5 software. Results: Of the 32 patients, 21 were men (65.6%) and 11 were women (34.4%). Localization of the injury: in the cornea 93.8%; lens damages 100%; vitreous organization 56.3%; retinal detachment 12.5%. Functional success (visual acuity >0.02): 18.8%, 4 eyes were enucleated. The normal intraocular pressure after surgery was 71.9%. Conclusion: The clinical characteristics of glaucoma after penetrating eye injury are complicated and multivariable. The rate of normal pressure after treatment was 71.9%.
Glaucoma/surgery ; Eye Injuries ; Penetrating ;

Human ; Aged ; Middle Aged ; Adult ; Young Adult ; Adolescent ; EYE INJURIES ; EYE INJURIES, PENETRATING ; PENETRATING EYE INJURIES

OBJECTIVE: To report an unusual case of frozen orbit caused by an unsuspected intraorbital foreign body. METHOD: This is a case report. RESULTS: A 31-year old Chinese man presented with a 6-month history of painless progressive right caruncular growth with mucoid discharge. He also had bilateral progressive reduction in ocular movements. His best-corrected vision was 6/9 bilaterally. A conjunctival granuloma arising from the right caruncle and extending to the cornea and associate with ophthalmoplegia was also present. Orbital computed tomography showed a dense rod-like structure traversing the nasal area, extending from the superomedial wall of the right orbit to the apex of the left orbit with surrounding inflammatory reaction but sparing the optic nerve. The intraorbital foreign body, a 6 cm chopstick splinter, was successfully removed via right lateral rhinotomy. CONCLUSION: Intraorbital foreign bodies are not uncommonly seen and, generally, the diagnosis is straightforward. Nevertheless, diagnosis, could be missed if it is not suspected.
Human ; Male ; Adult ; WOUNDS AND INJURIES ; EYE FOREIGN BODIES ; EYE DISEASES ;

The authors analysed statistically 223 cases of the eye injuries among 17,547 out-patients who visited to our clinic located at down-town of the city during Jan. 1965 to Sept. 1967. The incidence of the eye injuries is remarkably lower than the other reports from other communities. As far as the objects of eye injuries were concerned, ironpiece, fist and coal-dust were more frequent in 21~40 year-age group, while in under 10 year age group, knife, nail and finger-tip were more frequent. Male was exceedingly prevalent (162) than female (61). 21~30 year age group was also prevalent in regard to the incidence of the injuries.
Eye Injuries* ; Female ; Humans ; Incidence ; Male ; Outpatients*