Corneal Bee Sting Controlled with Early Surgical Intervention and Systemic High-Dose Steroid Therapy

A 34-year-old Asian woman presented with painful corneal bee sting. Examinations revealed severe corneal swelling with stinger stuck in deep stroma and endothelial cell loss. She was treated with early surgery including stinger removal and anterior chamber irrigation combined with systemic high-dose...

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Autores principales: Kim, Jung-Hoon, Kim, Moosang, Lee, Seung-Jun, Han, Sang Beom, Hyon, Joon Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2014
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4280807/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25580326
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/140626
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Sumario:A 34-year-old Asian woman presented with painful corneal bee sting. Examinations revealed severe corneal swelling with stinger stuck in deep stroma and endothelial cell loss. She was treated with early surgery including stinger removal and anterior chamber irrigation combined with systemic high-dose steroid therapy. Vision and corneal clarity was recovered in 5 days and no additional corneal endothelial damage was observed. This report suggests that early surgical intervention and high-dose steroid therapy appear to be a useful option in the treatment of corneal bee sting.

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