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Showing 1 to 7 of 7 for “"Ocular trauma"”.
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Survey of Ocular Trauma at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa
Background. Ocular trauma is an important cause of unilateral blindness around the world. There have been a few studies around South Africa that demonstrate the causality and outcomes, however, to date, no single study has been done that represents all ocular trauma cases that present to the trauma …
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Prevalence, clinical presentation and risk factors pf ocluar trauma at the University Teaching Hospital Eye Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia
… that up to 20% of adult population has had ocular trauma at some point in their lives. The reason for conducting this study was to explore ocular trauma presentation and risk factors at University Teaching Hospitals (UTH) Eye Hospital, in Lusaka Zam bia. To investigate the clinical …
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Sutured posterior chamber intraocular lenses for traumatic cataract in Africa
Ocular trauma is common in low-income countries. Groote Schuur Hospital manages large numbers of patients with the manifestations of ocular trauma every year. The lens and its supporting structures, major refractive components of the eye, may be damaged in more than half of cases of severe trauma. …
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Static and Dynamic Stress/Strain Properties for Human and Porcine Eyes
… is one of the most versatile ways to study ocular trauma, however, existing models lack accurate stress and strain properties for ocular globe rupture. A pressure system was built to examine static and dynamic globe rupture pressures for healthy postmortem human and porcine (pig) eyes. …
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Biomechanical Response of the Human Eye to Dynamic Loading
Blindness due to ocular trauma is a significant problem in the United States considering that each year approximately 500,000 years of eyesight are lost. The most likely sources of eye injuries include sports related impacts, automobile accidents, consumer products, and military combat. Out of the …
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How does the practice of evisceration for open globe injuries at Groote Schuur Hospital conform to international standards
Background: Penetrating trauma can have devastating visual consequences and is often challenging to manage effectively, especially in the setting of severe trauma. The decision to perform a primary repair or a primary evisceration following an open globe injury can be a difficult one. Removal of an …
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Development of a Workflow to study Neuronal Injury In Vivo in the Retina and In Vitro in Collagen Hydrogels
Ocular trauma affects 1.5-2 million individuals and is the fourth leading cause of blindness in the United States (Bourne et al., 2021a; Hashemi et al., 2023). In the military, the frequency of blasts has increased during recent military conflicts where 186,555 active-duty military personnel are …