Biomedical subjects
Publications and source records attributed to H Verbraeken.
In a group of 615 cases of perforating trauma, 25 cases (4%) of proven endophthalmitis were seen. The percentage of Bacillus infections was unusually high compared to other types of endophthalmitis (3.8% for the whole group, 31% for the group with intraocular foreign bodies). Bacillus cases have a very poor outcome and in fact the overall functional results in the post-traumatic endophthalmitis group were poorer than in other categories.
In case of an isolated orbital tumour, which evolves rapidly in a patient, whom general condition is good and who shows no other signs, the possibility of a sarcoidosis must be considered. The diagnosis will be confirmed by a biopsy and often by a tomography of the pulmonary hila, a radiography of the hands and feet as well as by the efficacity of the corticosteroid treatment.
The transplantation of cultivated hyalocytes after vitrectomy gave favourable functional results in 64% of the cases and appears to be a method of preventing atrophy of the globe and ocular hypotony after vitrectomy. We have nevertheless still to demonstrate that the results are better than these after injections of physiological saline.