Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient

The authors present a case of globe rupture from a fall in an elderly patient. This patient had her intraocular contents protruding and experienced complete vision loss in her right eye. The emergency management and downstream surgical care is discussed, as well as the use of the Ocular Trauma Score...

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Autores principales: Hanna, Andrew, Mangal, Rohan, Stead, Tej G, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807376
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5988
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description The authors present a case of globe rupture from a fall in an elderly patient. This patient had her intraocular contents protruding and experienced complete vision loss in her right eye. The emergency management and downstream surgical care is discussed, as well as the use of the Ocular Trauma Score to predict prognosis. Our patient had an Ocular Trauma Score of 1, considering right retinal detachment and perforating injury. 
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spelling pubmed-68769142019-12-05 Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient Hanna, Andrew Mangal, Rohan Stead, Tej G Ganti, Latha Cureus Ophthalmology The authors present a case of globe rupture from a fall in an elderly patient. This patient had her intraocular contents protruding and experienced complete vision loss in her right eye. The emergency management and downstream surgical care is discussed, as well as the use of the Ocular Trauma Score to predict prognosis. Our patient had an Ocular Trauma Score of 1, considering right retinal detachment and perforating injury.  Cureus 2019-10-24 /pmc/articles/PMC6876914/ /pubmed/31807376 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5988 Text en Copyright © 2019, Hanna et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 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 author and source are credited.
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Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title_full Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title_fullStr Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title_full_unstemmed Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title_short Globe Rupture and Protrusion of Intraocular Contents from Fall in Elderly Patient
title_sort globe rupture and protrusion of intraocular contents from fall in elderly patient
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6876914/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31807376
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.5988
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