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. 2010;3(2):179-81.
doi: 10.3980/j.issn.2222-3959.2010.02.21. Epub 2010 Jun 18.

Hospitalized eye injury in a Chinese urban population: a 7-year retrospective analysis

Min Wu  1 , Jian Ye
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Hospitalized eye injury in a Chinese urban population: a 7-year retrospective analysis

Min Wu et al. Int J Ophthalmol. 2010.

Abstract

Aim: To present the epidemiology, cause of injury, ocular status and final visual acuity after management of severe ocular trauma required hospitalization during 7 years in a representative urban Chinese population.

Methods: A retrospective analysis of the hospital admission files of ocular trauma patients admitted to the Daping hospital from January 2000 to December 2006 was carried out.

Results: A total of 268 patients were open-globe injury and the remaining 294 patients were closed-globe types. The most common causes of ocular injuries were metal (29.4%), explosive (14.6%) and stone (13.9%). And the visual outcomes of most of eye injury patients in this study were poor; half of injured eyes ended with visual acuity worse than 0.1.

Conclusion: Therapeutic methods to ocular trauma make a great progress in recent years, but the visual outcomes are poor.

Keywords: Chinese; eye; injury.

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Figure 1. Final best corrected visual acuity of ocular injuries
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