VT47 : A case of penetrating eye injury with copper wire”.

Dr.Amit Kumar Chawla, Dr.Mainak Bhattacharyya, Dr.Varun Saini, Dr.NARENDRA MEEL

This video presents workplace injury with copper wire in a 20 year old male. On examination patient had VA of 6/6 OD and hand movement OS, with a copper wire penetrating through cornea extending up to the substance of the crystalline lens with post traumatic cataract, and lens matter in anterior chamber. Patient was taken up for copper wire removal along with corneal wound repair. After entry into anterior chamber the wire was first cut with a vannas scissors. The part of the wire embedded in the crystalline lens was prolapsed into anterior chamber and extracted through the keratome entry wound and the part of the wire in the cornea extracted out directly followed by corneal wound repair with 10-0 nylon suture. Patient had post traumatic cataract on follow up with anechoic posterior segment on USG and subsequently planned for lens extraction with appropriate IOL.