Citation

Yang HS, Oh DE. Ophthal. Plast. Reconstr. Surg. 2011; 27(1): e2-4.

Affiliation

Department of Ophthalmology, Seoul Veterans Hospital, Seoul, Korea.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2011, American Society of Ophthalmic Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Publisher Lippincott Williams and Wilkins)

DOI

10.1097/IOP.0b013e3181d644f4

PMID

20859241

Abstract

A 56-year-old male presented with a history of left periorbital pain, nausea, vomiting, dyspnea, sweating, and pallor. His left eye was injured by a bomb explosion approximately 40 years ago. Evisceration was performed. There were no cardiopulmonary and gastroenterological findings except mild bradycardia (54/min). CT evaluation revealed a 4-cm-sized, sharp, metallic, intraorbital foreign body in the left orbit. After the removal of the foreign body, the symptoms completely resolved with a normal heart rate (69/min). The authors present a case of delayed oculocardiac reflex induced by an old intraorbital foreign body.

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