Catastrophic Thermal Corneoscleral Injury Treated with Transplantation of Donor Scleral Graft

Catastrophic Thermal Corneoscleral Injury Treated with Transplantation of Donor Scleral Graft

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Background: The aim of this study is to kenya tree coral for sale report a patient with senile cataract developing severe thermal corneoscleral injury during phacoemulsification, which was treated with a donor scleral graft.Case: Severe thermal corneoscleral injury occurred during phacoemulsification in the right eye of a 74-year-old male.His medical history was prostate hypertrophy.

Visual acuity was hand motion and the intraocular pressure was 3 mm Hg OD.There was heavy corneal stromal opacity with intraocular fluid leakage.The patient underwent transplantation of a donor scleral graft to the burn site.

Histologically, the injured sclera showed coagulation necrosis without inflammatory cell infiltration.An intraocular lens was eventually fixed in the elliot pecan tree for sale ciliary sulcus 7 months later.His visual acuity remains at 2/20 OD.

Conclusions: Transplantation of the donor scleral grafts is useful to close the wound in catastrophic thermal injury.