Open AccessSpontaneous globe rupture in a blind glaucomatous eye: A report of three cases
Author(s) -
Darlingtess Abies Oronsaye,
Dumebi H Kayoma
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
nigerian postgraduate medical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.261
H-Index - 19
ISSN - 1117-1936
DOI - 10.4103/npmj.npmj_113_18
Subject(s) - medicine , enucleation , evisceration (ophthalmology) , presentation (obstetrics) , sympathetic ophthalmia , glaucoma , ophthalmology , blindness , hyphema , surgery , optometry , alternative medicine , uveitis , pathology
This paper aims to report cases of spontaneous globe rupture in the blind eyes of three elderly patients with end-stage glaucoma some of which were possibly structurally compromised with topical traditional eye medications and steroids. These patients presented to the ophthalmology department of the University of Benin Teaching Hospital with a history of bleeding from one of their eyes and no antecedent history of trauma. They were known glaucoma patients who were blind with previously recorded high intraocular pressures. Evisceration was performed for two of the cases while enucleation was performed for one shortly after presentation.