Abstract:
Trauma affect the eye in various ways, according to the type and degree of
trauma which may lead to completely loss of vision for its direct effect on lens
,retina and vitreous .Therefore the general objective of this study was to evaluate
the ultrasound efficiency in diagnosing traumatized eyes.
This is a prospective study conducted to evaluate the effects of trauma on
eye , where 53 traumatized eye patients visited trauma clinic in makkah hospital
for eye in Khartoum and all undergone ultrasound imaging by B-scan machine
with high frequency sector transducer(10 MHrz) .
The result of this study showed that the right eye is sustained to trauma
more than the left but in closely ratio(54.7% to 45.3%) ,also the ratio is close
between the blunt(50.9%) and penetrating trauma(47.2%), but there is a big
difference between these two types and postsurgical trauma(1.9%) , this big
difference might be due to lack of data as a result of poor management.
In relation to gender the study found that males are sustained penetrating
trauma (51.1%) whereas females experience blunt trauma (60%).
Causative factors varied from sharp objects to solid objects , which lead to
variations in the effect :retinal detachment ,cataract, corneal opacity , detach and
vitreous hemorrhage and endophthalmitis.
The effects result from eye trauma diagnosed easily and perfectly by B-scan
ultrasonography ,and all the patients undergone their investigation with closed eyes
, which emphasized that B-scan is effective in diagnosis of traumatized eyes.
