Background: The aim of this study is to report a patient with senile cataract developing severe thermal corneoscleral shure ua874 injury during phacoemulsification, which was treated with a donor scleral graft.Case: Severe thermal corneoscleral injury occurred during phacoemulsification in the right eye of a 74-year-old male.His medical history was prostate hypertrophy.
Visual acuity was hand motion and the intraocular pressure was 3 mm Hg OD.There was heavy corneal stromal opacity with intraocular fluid leakage.The patient underwent transplantation of a donor scleral amina muaddi scarpe trasparenti graft to the burn site.
Histologically, the injured sclera showed coagulation necrosis without inflammatory cell infiltration.An intraocular lens was eventually fixed in the ciliary sulcus 7 months later.His visual acuity remains at 2/20 OD.
Conclusions: Transplantation of the donor scleral grafts is useful to close the wound in catastrophic thermal injury.