TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2018//
TI  - A 3-year prospective study on ocular injuries with tennis or cricket ball while playing cricket: A case series
JO  - Indian journal of ophthalmology
A1  - Mahapatra, Santosh Kumar
A1  - Malhotra, Kundan
A1  - Mendke, Rohit Ganapatrao
SP  - 256
EP  - 261
VL  - 66
IS  - 2
N2  - PURPOSE: The purpose of this study is to study the clinical features, visual outcome, management, and ocular complications of ocular injury, following trauma with tennis or cricket ball. <br><br>METHODS: A prospective, noncomparative case study of patients having injury with tennis/cricket ball while playing cricket was conducted between January 2013 and April 2016. Seventy-six eyes of 76 patients were studied. Presenting vision, age, gender, time since injury, general and ocular examination, intraocular pressure, indirect ophthalmoscopy, B scan, and X-ray/computed tomography scan findings were noted. Patients were managed medically or surgically as per the need and followed up at least for 6 months. <br><br>RESULTS: Seventy-six eyes of 76 patients were studied. All cases were male, except two. Majority (80.2%) were <25 years. Median presenting visual acuity (VA) was 6/36 and median final VA was 6/18. Significant findings in the decreasing order of frequency were sphincter tear (26.3%), retinal detachment (23.6%), angle recession (18.4%), choroidal rupture (17.1%), and Berlin's edema (15.7%). Most of the cases (69.7%) were managed medically. Only 30.2% cases needed surgical intervention. Final visual outcome in our study was depended on initial VA (P = 0.000). It was also correlating with presenting clinical feature (P = 0.010) and type of intervention (medical/surgical) (P = 0.001). <br><br>CONCLUSION: Cricket-related ocular injury generally has a poor prognosis with most cases being closed globe injury; retinal detachment is the most common vision-threatening presentation. In spite of being a common event, cricket-related injury is sparingly documented and hence needs further studies for proper documentation, prognostication, and formulation of definitive management plan.<p />  <p>Language: en</p>
LA  - en
SN  - 0301-4738
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijo.IJO_458_17
ID  - ref1
ER  -