Effectiveness of the treatment of early hemophthalmos and its sequelae by closed vitrectomy
Belianin, A.F.
Vestnik Oftalmologii 105(4): 3-5
1989
ISSN/ISBN: 0042-465X PMID: 2800101 Document Number: 337594
The author analyzes the results of surgical treatment of traumatic hemophthalmia and the relationship of these results with the time of the hemorrhage in 54 patients (54 eyes). Twenty-five patients have been operated on within 2 months after wounding (Group 1), the rest 29 later (Group 2). All the patients presented with incurable changes in the vitreous body, therefore drug therapy could not be effective. The surgery has resulted in vision improvement in 8 of Group 1 patients and in 24 of Group 2 patients; 17 patients of these 24 have been discharged from hospital with a visual acuity of 0.1 or higher. These results evidence that the best terms of optic vitrectomy are 2-6 months after the perforating wound.