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car accident eye trauma
Hello i am a 32 years old nurse and i writing because i need help about my sister.She is 27 years old and she had a car accident before 5 months.She had some broken bones and an eye injury.Two weeks after the accident the opthalmologist found a huge tear it was at 4:00 to 8:00 at the peripheral retina.They treated her immediatelly with laser photocoagulation created two barries to sealed the tear and avoid an RD.The tear was a grt the said but it didnt affect her vision because of the peripheral location.
My questions are the above:
1) Is she still in a risk of an RD and if she is for how long?
2)Will she be able to keep her eye without any more retinal problems until her old age and continue a normal life without surgeries for dettachments?
3)Can we consider this eye a healthy one after two years of the trauma?
4)She had a lasik surgery three years ago for hypermetropia is this anyway realated?(the lasik or the hypermetropia.)
5)She still sees flashes at night an when she moves her eyeball what about that?
My questions are the above:
1) Is she still in a risk of an RD and if she is for how long?
2)Will she be able to keep her eye without any more retinal problems until her old age and continue a normal life without surgeries for dettachments?
3)Can we consider this eye a healthy one after two years of the trauma?
4)She had a lasik surgery three years ago for hypermetropia is this anyway realated?(the lasik or the hypermetropia.)
5)She still sees flashes at night an when she moves her eyeball what about that?
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
Be sure to take good care of the uninjured eye. Healthy life-style, regular visits to ophthalmologist, avoid activities that carry risk of injury to eye (power tools, lawn mowers, weed-eaters, contact sports).
I also tell my patients to avoid amusement rides that whip the head around and no yoga standing on head.
JCH MD
I also tell my patients to avoid amusement rides that whip the head around and no yoga standing on head.
JCH MD
MEDICAL PROFESSIONAL
1. Yes the increased risk will be all her life. However it is more likely the treatment will prevent a RD than the RD will extend through the laser barriers
2. No one can tell you that for sure, her surgeons are the best to give you best predictions.
3. No, all you can consider it is that the eye had a RD and that laser to date has prevented an RD. It is not a normal eye and never will be again.
4. It is more likely related to the trauma.
5. Traction on the vitreous likely from the laser induced scars. Flashes without movement day or night would require a repeat exam by her Eye MDs.
JCH MD
2. No one can tell you that for sure, her surgeons are the best to give you best predictions.
3. No, all you can consider it is that the eye had a RD and that laser to date has prevented an RD. It is not a normal eye and never will be again.
4. It is more likely related to the trauma.
5. Traction on the vitreous likely from the laser induced scars. Flashes without movement day or night would require a repeat exam by her Eye MDs.
JCH MD
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