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Primary use of silicone oil tamponade in the management of perforating globe injury secondary to inadvertent local anaesthesia injection for ophthalmic surgery

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Perforating and penetrating globe injuries secondary to peribulbar and retrobulbar anaesthesia are often complicated by vitreous haemorrhage and retinal detachment. We describe the effectiveness of primary silicone oiltamponade in the repair of three perforatedglobes secondary to local anaesthesia for ophthalmic surgery.

Three patients with axial myopia had peribulbar and retrobulbar anaesthesia for extracapsular cataract extraction (two patients) and cryotherapy (one patient). All eyes sustained a vitreous haemorrhage obscuring the view to the fundus. Retinal detachments were detected by B-scan ultrasound. In all eyes, scleral buckling, pars plana vitrectomy and silicone oil tamponade were performed as a primary surgical procedure. All the patients had complete anatomic reposition. In two patients, after two years follow-up, visual acuity was between 6/12to 6/36 with the retina attached and no proliferative vitreoretinopathy (PVR). The third patient had blind painful eye and enucleation was performed. Primary use of silicone oil tamponade, in the management of perforated globe with retinal detachment due to local anaesthesia injection, is recommended.

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  1. Department of Vitreoretinal Surgery, University of Cologne, Joseph-Stelzmann Str. 9, D-50924, Cologne, Germany

    G. Rosenthal, K.U. Bartz-Schmidt, B. Engels, P. Walter & K. Heimann

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Rosenthal, G., Bartz-Schmidt, K., Engels, B. et al. Primary use of silicone oil tamponade in the management of perforating globe injury secondary to inadvertent local anaesthesia injection for ophthalmic surgery. Int Ophthalmol 21, 349–352 (1997). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006027931938

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