Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components

We report a case of severe ocular injury and impaired vision after self-administration of alum. A 56-year-old female administered an alum substance in the left eye and experienced severe corneal thinning, a scar, and decreased vision. The active compounds in the alum substance were analyzed using sc...

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Autores principales: Al-Ghadeer, Huda, Al-Amry, Mohammed
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7276163/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32549727
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/meajo.MEAJO_215_19
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description We report a case of severe ocular injury and impaired vision after self-administration of alum. A 56-year-old female administered an alum substance in the left eye and experienced severe corneal thinning, a scar, and decreased vision. The active compounds in the alum substance were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. When topically administered, alum may cause severe ocular injury. Public awareness, early recognition of the injuries, and timely intervention may prevent permanent ocular damage.
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spelling pubmed-72761632020-06-16 Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components Al-Ghadeer, Huda Al-Amry, Mohammed Middle East Afr J Ophthalmol Case Report We report a case of severe ocular injury and impaired vision after self-administration of alum. A 56-year-old female administered an alum substance in the left eye and experienced severe corneal thinning, a scar, and decreased vision. The active compounds in the alum substance were analyzed using scanning electron microscopy. When topically administered, alum may cause severe ocular injury. Public awareness, early recognition of the injuries, and timely intervention may prevent permanent ocular damage. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2020-04-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7276163/ /pubmed/32549727 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/meajo.MEAJO_215_19 Text en Copyright: © 2020 Middle East African Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title_full Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title_fullStr Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title_full_unstemmed Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title_short Corneal Thinning Induced by Self-administered Alum Substance: A Case Report and Analysis of the Active Components
title_sort corneal thinning induced by self-administered alum substance: a case report and analysis of the active components
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7276163/
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