Ocular Trauma in a Greek Population: Review of 899 Cases Resulting in Hospitalization

Abstract

Trauma is an important cause of ocular morbidity in Greece. Risk factors include young age, male gender, Albanian ethnic background, and workplace. General safety precautions and behavior modification are indicated.

Demographic and etiologic characteristics of children with traumatic serious hyphema

“…However, for final VA, it is thought to be related with accompanying anterior and posterior segment complications like traumatic cataract, glaucoma, iridodialysis vitreus hemorrhage, macular edema, and retinal detachment, as previously reported. [1,[19][20][21][22][23][24] The results of the current study were similar to those of previous studies conducted on traumatic hyphemas in adults with respect to the frequency of complications. [1,4,14,18,22] Increase in IOP is common in traumatic hyphema patients, especially in grades 3 and 4.…”

“…[15] Visual acuity usually decreases in patients with traumatic hyphema, especially more severally in grade 3 and 4 hyphemas. [14,[19][20][21][22] In our series, vision loss was more severe in grade 4 than grade 3 patients. The mean initial and final VA of grade 4 patients were found to be significantly lower than those of grade 3 patients.…”

“…It has also been reported that re-bleeding was associated with worse VA and higher complication rates. [1,22,27,[29][30][31] In our study, grade of disease, VA and complication rates were similar in patients with and without re-bleeding. The rate of re-bleeding was lower in our study.…”

Characteristics of pediatric and adult cases with open globe injury and factors affecting the visual outcome: a retrospective analyses of 294 cases from Turkey

“…Many epidemiological studies have reported that ocular trauma is more common among males than among females. [13][14][15][16][17][18][19] In our sample, ocular trauma was also more frequent in males, with the male:female ratios of 1.4:1 and 6:1 in the pediatric and adult groups, respectively.…”

Traumatic Hyphema Frequency and Management Evaluation: A Retrospective Study

“…The low occurrence of sports injuries in our population suggest the low priority given to sports, and this may be due to poor information about its benefits. In recent studies from developed countries, Sports related injuries have become the most common in adults [40][41][42].…”