In cases of severe ocular trauma with NLP vision, under what circumstances do you consider proceeding with pars plana vitrectomy?
Answer from: at Community Practice
I don’t. Often, it is time to have a difficult discussion with the patient about the timing of eviseration or enucleation, if the eye presents as an open globe. The risk of endophthalmitis, worsening ptysis and pain, as well as the small risk of sympathetic ophthalmia, are sound reasons to con...