Abstract:
:Each year an estimated 1.3 million Americans suffer eye injuries. There is little information in the literature regarding the prevalence, demographic characteristics, and prognosis of these patients. The Eye Injury Registry of Alabama (EIRA) serves as the first and only statewide system of its kind for the collection of information on serious eye injuries. We have analyzed 736 cases of serious eye injury (injury involving permanent structural or functional change) accumulated by the EIRA between August 1982 and May 1986. Prognosis was found to be related to early diagnosis and initial vision. Individuals with follow-up vision of 20/40 or better were found in all early diagnostic groups, and 13% of patients with no light perception on initial examination had some improvement on follow-up. The worst visual prognosis was among those patients suffering blunt eyeball rupture, of whom 40% had no light perception and 25% regained vision of 20/100 or better.
journal_name
South Med Jjournal_title
Southern medical journalauthors
Morris RE,Witherspoon CD,Helms HA Jr,Feist RM,Byrne JB Jrdoi
10.1097/00007611-198707000-00004subject
Has Abstractpub_date
1987-07-01 00:00:00pages
810-6issue
7eissn
0038-4348issn
1541-8243journal_volume
80pub_type
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更新日期:1979-04-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000607
更新日期:2017-03-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1983-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1975-03-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/00007611-197805000-00036
更新日期:1978-05-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1097/00007611-198510000-00017
更新日期:1985-10-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/00007611-197904000-00021
更新日期:1979-04-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2016-02-01 00:00:00
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doi:10.1097/00007611-197910000-00012
更新日期:1979-10-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:2011-09-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1977-06-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1977-02-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1996-05-01 00:00:00
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更新日期:1976-10-01 00:00:00
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pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,随机对照试验
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更新日期:1986-11-01 00:00:00