Abstract
A 60 years old lady, who underwent phaco with lens implantation, receivedcorneal burn from a hot phacoemulsification tip. After two months of surgery herORBscan showed the corneal burn induced astigmatism of 5.0 D. Her vision wasCF unaided and 6/24 with correction. Full thickness limbal relaxing incision wasmade and after 2 weeks her ORBscan showed very less astigmatism. After 6weeks her ORBscan corneal topography showed astigmatism of just -0.3 Dwhich was stable until her last follow up at 6 months and her visual acuity whichwas CF initially improved to 6/12 unaided. She was followed up for a period ofsix months with ORBscan, uncorrected and best corrected visual acuity. So weconcluded that Limbal relaxing incision is a useful technique to reduce the highastigmatism induced by thermal corneal burns and to improve the visualoutcome.Key words: Limbal relaxing incision, corneal burn, astigmatism
Irfan Qayyum Malik, Syed Ali Haider, Qasim Lateef. (2015) Limbal Relaxing Incision for Treatment of Thermal Corneal Burns, Pakistan Journal of Ophthalmology, Volume 31, Issue 2.
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