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African still-life: cases mix of June 2016

In EnglishEN: (from right to left, from top to bottom):

Raw 1: giant retinal tear with retinal detachment; bulk papillomatous OSSN in HIV patient; stromal keratitis in a young girl, responded well for steroids treatment alone; extensive conjunctival OSSN involving cornea.

Raw 2: traumatic lens rupture in a young male, resulted in 6/6 vision after lens washout with IOL implant; status 1 year after conjunctival flap for descemetocele in an old single eye patient, awaiting keratoplasty; uveitic cataract in a single eye old lady with 360 posterior synechia, massive anterior synechia, and no RD – resulted in a good vision after complex SICS-vitrectomy-IOL procedure, and became seeing first time after 7 years of blindness; beautiful case of lamellar cataract.

Raw 3: melted cornea resulted in anterior staphyloma with huge uveal exposure in a child; scleral autograft closing corneal perforation resulted from cobra spit envenomation; bulk upper eyelid nevus, lonely kissing nevus; self-mutilation in psychiatric patient resulted in neck cut, lid full thickness laceration with some tissue loss and cheek laceration. Central picture: intumescent bilateral cataract in 14 yo girl, treated with SICS and resulted in perfect postoperative vision.

Center: bilateral white juvenile cataract in 14yo girl. Successfully recovered vision after bilateral SICS.

Raw 4: spontaneous dislocation of morgagnian cataract through the breaks in the anterior capsule; complex corneal laceration with uveal prolapse treated with repair; traumatic orbital cellulitis; pronounced skin scars and cicatricial lower lid entropion caused by insect bite.

Raw 5: Haab’s striae in congenital glaucoma case; classical picture of funnel-shaped retinal detachment; aggressive recurrent pterygium; traumatic lens rupture with embedded multiple corneal wooden foreign bodies.

Raw 6: evisceration process; bilateral corneal opacities in absence of congenital glaucoma (?mucoviscidosis; ?CHED); congenital extensive limboscleral dermoid in a baby; extensive basal cell carcinoma in an elderly male patient.

African tropical ophthalmology cases mix

African tropical ophthalmology cases mix

What is it like, when you have to do an urgent corneal trauma case in Africa?

In EnglishIt’s like, when you really, really struggling to bring everyone together (yourself, the scrub nurse and the anesthetist), they will tell you, that the child has drunk some water, and the case shall be postponed for a couple hours. And then it’s like when you are thinking you are about to go and do it, they will tell you, that now the anesthetist is busy with Ceasarian sections.

“C” – Compromised.

Waiting for them to be ready, there is a case with corneal laceration, lens rupture and hyphema in a child… Trauma happened in the morning, and now it is 20:20. High chances for the child to be operated in the morning. Usual practice, when African Time does not respect any reason.