Vision researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have discovered vitrectomy surgery can help restore vision in patients who have hemorrhaging in the eye following a traumatic brain injury (TBI), even if the operation does not happen until several months after the injury.
For their study, the researchers examined cases from three medical centers in different parts of the world of patients who developed ocular hemorrhages following car accidents. One group of patients underwent a vitrectomy within three months of hemorrhaging, while the other group had the surgery after the three-month mark.
According to researchers, within one month of the surgery the average patient vision was 20/40, and a few months later almost all patients had 20//20 vision. They also reported there was no significant difference between patients who had the earlier surgery or those who waited.
The study was recently published in the journal Ophthalmology.
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Source: Washington University School of Medicine