Management and outcome of a case of severe ocular chemical injury

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Col. M Deshpande Shilpa Joshi

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Shilpa Joshi
MBBS, DOMS, FICO, Fellow, Cornea (L.V.Prasad Eye Institute), is a senior cornea consultant & medical director, Eye Bank, at H.V.Desai Eye Hospital, Pune

A B S T R A C T

Ocular chemical injuries may produce extensive damage to surface epithelium,cornea & anterior segment of eye. Most severe injuries have an unfavorable prognosis, but timely & optimal surgical management like Amniotic membrane grafting, Stem cell transplantation, penetrating keratoplasty and in indicated cases, a keratoprosthesis.This case report presents a case of bilateral alkali injury, the management of which was a long drawn & challenging process

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 15, Apr 2019
Accepted: Sat 27, Apr 2019
Published: Mon 22, Jul 2019

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© 2023 Shilpa Joshi. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.02.019