Citation

Al-Tamimi ER. Saudi J. Ophthalmol. 2014; 28(3): 225-227.

Affiliation

Department of Ophthalmology, King Fahd Hospital of the University, University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2014, Saudi Ophthalmological Society, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.1016/j.sjopt.2013.06.005

PMID

25278802

PMCID

PMC4181438

Abstract

This is a descriptive case report of a seven-year-old boy presented in January 2007 with decreased vision in the right eye, for 2 months after sustaining a trauma while he was playing with fireworks during the Eid holiday. He was treated in a suburban hospital for corneal laceration and was prescribed a topical antibiotic and a topical steroid. When the child presented to us, a slit lamp examination revealed a thread in the anterior chamber, his un-aided visual acuity was 6/60 on a Snellen chart. Surgery to remove the foreign body was scheduled, but the patient never attended. The patient was lost to follow-up and returned in January 2011 with an un-aided visual acuity of 6/12, although the foreign body was retained in the anterior chamber (AC) with a quiet eye and good vision. At that time, we decided to follow the patient without any surgical intervention. Again, the patient was lost to follow-up and returned with almost full vision in September 2012, with a visual acuity of 6/6 without correction. Thus, we concluded that thread like IOFBs in the AC can be considered inert materials that may not need any surgical intervention in a quiet eye that does not show any signs of inflammation and where the IOFB is non-mobile and located away from the endothelium.

Language: en