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OCULAR IMMUNOLOGY AND INFLAMMATION
Volume 13, Issue 1, Pages 85-86Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/09273940590909158
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sympathetic ophthalmia; nonpenetrating ocular trauma; hyphema; blunt trauma; eye trauma; uveitis; ocular injury
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Purpose: To report a case of sympathetic ophthalmia occurring after nonpenetrating ocular trauma. Methods: Interventional case report. Results: An 18-year-old white male presented with sympathetic ophthalmia four weeks after a hyphema from a nonpenetrating bungee cord injury. Vision was 20/20; there were keratic precipitates, anterior chamber cells, vitritis, and discrete yellow deep choroidal lesions consistent with Dalen-Fuch's nodules OU. The uveitis was treated with topical, oral, and periocular corticosteroids and the oral immunosuppressives cyclosporine and mycophenolate mofetil. Vision remained 20/20 OU for the first year of follow-up; vision OD then deteriorated to 20/50 over the next year with the formation of a posterior subcapsular cataract OD. Conclusion: Sympathetic ophthalmia may result from nonpenetrating ocular trauma. Ophthalmologists should be aware of this as prompt intervention is warranted.
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