@article{ref1,
title="Epidemiology, clinical characteristics, prognostic factors, and visual outcomes in patients with open ocular injuries and intraocular foreign bodies",
journal="Harefuah",
year="2016",
author="Konforty, Neta and Lior, Yotam and Levy, Jaime and Belfair, Nadav and Bilenko, Natalya and Lifshitz, Tova and Klemperer, Itamar and Knyazer, Boris",
volume="155",
number="5",
pages="267-71, 324",
abstract="AIMS: To describe and identify clinical characteristics, prognostic factors and visual outcome in patients with intraocular foreign bodies (IOFB) in southern Israel. <br><br>METHODS: We conducted a retrospective review of all cases of open globe injury with IOFB treated and followed-up for at least 6 months in the Ophthalmology Department at Soroka University Medical Center, Beer Sheva, Israel, from 1995-2011. The study population was subdivided into two groups: 1. Patients whose difference in visual acuity (VA) between presentation and end of follow-up was considered &quot;successful&quot; (n = 54); 2. Patients whose difference in VA between presentation and end of follow-up was considered &quot;non-successful&quot;(n = 14). Comparing these two groups, we analyzed the following: time from trauma to admission, time from admission to operation, location of IOB, wound zone, best corrected VA at admission. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 97.1% of the study group were males and the mean age was 28.7 ± 15.3 years. Metallic IOB were found in 73.5% of cases. The IOFB penetrated at Zone 1 in 61.8% cases, and were located at the posterior segment in 65.2 % of cases. The two subgroups differed in their best corrected VA (by LogMAR) at presentation (p value = 0.02): the patients who were defined as &quot;successful&quot; (n = 54) had.a higher mean VA (1.2 ± 1.3) than those (n = 14) who were defined as &quot;non-successful&quot; (1.1 ± 0.6). The duration of time from trauma to admission was not found to be of statistical significance (p value = 0.361, and neither did the time from admission to operation (P value = 1). <br><br>CONCLUSION: We present an innovative definition of VA changes during the follow-up period in patients with open globe injuries involving IOFB. Our study showed that patients who presented with worse VA had a better chance of a &quot;successful&quot; outcome.<p /> <p>Language: he</p>",
language="he",
issn="0017-7768",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}