ALLMedicine™ Ocular Burns Center

Oct 22nd, 2020 - Airbags significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in automobile crashes, but they have been found to be associated with burns. Specifically, airbags can cause burns through thermal or chemical mechanisms and commonly affect the arms, hands, fac...

Feb 1st, 2020 - This article describes a novel surgical technique for successful repair of intractable corneoscleral necrosis caused by severe ocular burns. In this prospective case series, 19 eyes of 15 consecutive patients with sectional scleral necrosis and pe...

Dec 6th, 2019 - Periorbital burns generate contraction and distortion of periorbital soft tissue, causing eyelid malfunction, further contributing to loss of vision from corneal scarring or perforation. We present our multidisciplinary algorithm to restore vision...

Nov 27th, 2019 - Ocular burns are ophthalmological emergencies, owing to their potentially serious visual complications. Prompt recognition, irrigation and comprehensive examination including fluorescein staining is recommended to optimise outcomes. Burns standard...

Nov 14th, 2019 - Chemical ocular burns are among the most frequently eye-related injuries, which require immediate and intensive evaluation and care since they may lead to potential complications such as superinfection, corneal perforation, and blindness.Vasconcel...

Oct 22nd, 2020 - Airbags significantly reduce fatalities and injuries in automobile crashes, but they have been found to be associated with burns. Specifically, airbags can cause burns through thermal or chemical mechanisms and commonly affect the arms, hands, fac...

Feb 1st, 2020 - This article describes a novel surgical technique for successful repair of intractable corneoscleral necrosis caused by severe ocular burns. In this prospective case series, 19 eyes of 15 consecutive patients with sectional scleral necrosis and pe...

Dec 6th, 2019 - Periorbital burns generate contraction and distortion of periorbital soft tissue, causing eyelid malfunction, further contributing to loss of vision from corneal scarring or perforation. We present our multidisciplinary algorithm to restore vision...

Nov 27th, 2019 - Ocular burns are ophthalmological emergencies, owing to their potentially serious visual complications. Prompt recognition, irrigation and comprehensive examination including fluorescein staining is recommended to optimise outcomes. Burns standard...

Nov 14th, 2019 - Chemical ocular burns are among the most frequently eye-related injuries, which require immediate and intensive evaluation and care since they may lead to potential complications such as superinfection, corneal perforation, and blindness.Vasconcel...

Jan 2nd, 2018 - Ocular burns from detergent pods, retinopathy after the solar eclipse, undiagnosed macular degeneration, and mortality in older women who had cataract surgery led the list of JAMA Ophthalmology's most popular articles in 2017. These stories were i...

Jul 20th, 2016 - Viewpoint The corneal epithelium is produced by the stem cells located deep in the palisades of Vogt at the limbus. When this limbal tissue is damaged, it either results in the corneal epithelium failing to heal, in turn causing a persistent epith...

Jul 20th, 2016 - Simple Limbal Epithelial Transplantation: Long-Term Clinical Outcomes in 125 Cases of Unilateral Chronic Ocular Surface Burns Basu S, Sureka SP, Shanbhag SS, Kethiri AR, Singh V, Sangwan VS Ophthalmology. 2016;123:1000-1010 Study Summary The autho...

Jun 23rd, 2010 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Jun 23 - In 112 patients with burn-related corneal destruction, Italian researchers report a success rate over 75% in restoring transparent epithelium with autologous limbal stem cell transplants. Twenty-seven patients ev...

Jun 23rd, 2010 - Action Points Explain to interested patients that this study used stem cells cultured from a patient's own eyes rather than live- or deceased-donor eyes. Autologous stem cells can restore sight when ocular burns have destroyed the limbal cell laye...