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Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty

We present the case of an 86-year-old woman who developed a blowout fracture after Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). Sixteen months after DSAEK, she suffered a blow to her left eye caused by a fall. Computed tomography confirmed the presence of a blowout fracture...

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Autores principales: Tachibana, Eri, Koh, Shizuka, Maeda, Naoyuki, Nishida, Kohji
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369056
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author Tachibana, Eri
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description We present the case of an 86-year-old woman who developed a blowout fracture after Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). Sixteen months after DSAEK, she suffered a blow to her left eye caused by a fall. Computed tomography confirmed the presence of a blowout fracture of the inferior wall of the left orbit with soft tissue prolapsing into the orbit. The patient complained of no abnormal symptoms, and her operated cornea was intact and clear. There was no abnormal finding in both the anterior and posterior segments. This case highlights that the DSAEK technique provides adequate tectonic stability of the globe throughout the traumatic event in contrast to penetrating keratoplasty, which can lead to devastating vision damage after trauma.
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spelling pubmed-43371672015-03-10 Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty Tachibana, Eri Koh, Shizuka Maeda, Naoyuki Nishida, Kohji Case Rep Ophthalmol Published online: November, 2014 We present the case of an 86-year-old woman who developed a blowout fracture after Descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty (DSAEK). Sixteen months after DSAEK, she suffered a blow to her left eye caused by a fall. Computed tomography confirmed the presence of a blowout fracture of the inferior wall of the left orbit with soft tissue prolapsing into the orbit. The patient complained of no abnormal symptoms, and her operated cornea was intact and clear. There was no abnormal finding in both the anterior and posterior segments. This case highlights that the DSAEK technique provides adequate tectonic stability of the globe throughout the traumatic event in contrast to penetrating keratoplasty, which can lead to devastating vision damage after trauma. S. Karger AG 2014-11-06 /pmc/articles/PMC4337167/ /pubmed/25759661 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369056 Text en Copyright © 2014 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article licensed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC) (www.karger.com/OA-license), applicable to the online version of the article only. Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published online: November, 2014
Tachibana, Eri
Koh, Shizuka
Maeda, Naoyuki
Nishida, Kohji
Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title_full Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title_fullStr Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title_full_unstemmed Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title_short Blowout Fracture after Descemet's Stripping Automated Endothelial Keratoplasty
title_sort blowout fracture after descemet's stripping automated endothelial keratoplasty
topic Published online: November, 2014
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4337167/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25759661
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000369056
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