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A 14-year-old girl presented with a traumatic injury to the right eye from a water-bottle cap, caused by the increasingly popular adolescent activity of twisting and crushing an empty plastic water bottle, with the cap loosened, until the cap flies off because of increased pressure. The patient's vision was limited to hand motions, and the intraocular pressure was 13 mm Hg. A 70% hyphema was present. Vision improved slowly with clearing of the hyphema. On day 4, she experienced severe eye pain and decreased vision. The blood clot in the anterior chamber (white arrow) had decreased in size, and a . . . [Full Text of this Article] |
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