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Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery

A 35-year-old Kuwaiti lady, who is a known myope, developed severe anterior segment ischemia following extra-ocular muscle transposition surgery. The patient was treated with topical and systemic steroids. Her best corrected visual acuity after complete resolution of the inflammation was 20/40. She...

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Autores principales: Al Enezi, Mona H., Al Wayel, Adnan H.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20379426
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.53372
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description A 35-year-old Kuwaiti lady, who is a known myope, developed severe anterior segment ischemia following extra-ocular muscle transposition surgery. The patient was treated with topical and systemic steroids. Her best corrected visual acuity after complete resolution of the inflammation was 20/40. She also developed pupillary mydriasis and anterior lens changes.
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spelling pubmed-28487982010-04-08 Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery Al Enezi, Mona H. Al Wayel, Adnan H. Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report A 35-year-old Kuwaiti lady, who is a known myope, developed severe anterior segment ischemia following extra-ocular muscle transposition surgery. The patient was treated with topical and systemic steroids. Her best corrected visual acuity after complete resolution of the inflammation was 20/40. She also developed pupillary mydriasis and anterior lens changes. Medknow Publications 2008 /pmc/articles/PMC2848798/ /pubmed/20379426 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0974-9233.53372 Text en © Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title_full Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title_fullStr Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title_full_unstemmed Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title_short Anterior Segment Ischemia in a Young Myopic following Transposition Surgery
title_sort anterior segment ischemia in a young myopic following transposition surgery
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2848798/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20379426
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