[Effectiveness of the treatment of early hemophthalmos and its sequelae by closed vitrectomy].

Abstract

The author analyzes the results of surgical treatment of traumatic hemophthalmia and the relationship of these results with the time of the hemorrhage in 54 patients (54 eyes). Twenty-five patients have been operated on within 2 months after wounding (Group 1), the rest 29 later (Group 2). All the patients presented with incurable changes in the vitreous body, therefore drug therapy could not be effective. The surgery has resulted in vision improvement in 8 of Group 1 patients and in 24 of Group 2 patients; 17 patients of these 24 have been discharged from hospital with a visual acuity of 0.1 or higher. These results evidence that the best terms of optic vitrectomy are 2-6 months after the perforating wound.

• Authors: A F Belianin
• Journal: Vestnik oftalmologii (Vestn Oftalmol) 1989 Jul-Aug Vol. 105 Issue 4 Pg. 3-5 ISSN: 0042-465X [Print] Russia (Federation)
• Vernacular Title: Ob éffektivnosti lecheniia ranevykh gemoftal'mov i ikh posledstviĭ metodom zakrytoĭ vitréktomii.
• PMID: 2800101 (Publication Type: Comparative Study, English Abstract, Journal Article)

Topics

• Adolescent
• Adult
• Aged
• Child
• Eye Hemorrhage (etiology, surgery)
• Eye Injuries (complications)
• Female
• Humans
• Male
• Middle Aged
• Time Factors
• Visual Acuity
• Vitrectomy