PMID: 2100773Jan 1, 1990Paper

The nature and results of the treatment of eye burns based on data from the Chernovtsy Province Eye Trauma Center

Oftalmologicheskiĭ zhurnal
V I LuchikN N Kushnir

Abstract

The character and results of eye burn treatment have been studied in 226 patients (307 eyes) aged from 10 to 80 years. The analysis of the character of eye burns has shown that the overwhelming majority of them were chemical ones (80.54%), of them 50% being alkaline. As to degree of severity, burns of moderate degree predominated (58.74%). The greatest part of the sufferers had everyday-life burns (67.7%). Results of treatment depended, mainly, on the severity of the burn. By the results of treatment, the patients were divided into 4 groups: group I included patients with total restoration of corneal transparency, who can return to their former labor activity; group-II patients with partially lost visual functions on account of remained, moderately expressed cicatricial opacifications of the cornea, who in future require repeated courses of resolving therapy; group-III patients with a remarkable loss of visual functions on account of coarse cicatricial opacifications of the cornea, who in future require surgical treatment--keratoplasty, keratoprosthesing and other surgical interventions; group IV-patients with total restoration of corneal transparency after treatment, but with insufficiently high visual acuity because of associ...Continue Reading

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