Ophthalmologists of the Central Clinical Hospital No. 23 saved eyes and saved the 10-year-old boy with vision. Doctors removed a fragment of firecracker from the child's eye.

According to the Department of Health of the city administration, the boy was delivered an ambulance with complaints of pain, lack of vision on the left eye. As it turned out an hour before entering the hospital, a small patient, along with a company of friends in the yard of his house, set fire to the firecrackers, one of which exploded. The splinter flew into the left eye, after which vision was lost, pains appeared in the eye. Parents immediately called an ambulance child.

"The child was diagnosed with a penetrating wound about 10 mm long," recalls the ophthalmologist Sergei Shamkin. - In the wound itself there were fallen shells, the camera of the eye was filled with blood. On the images of computed tomography, a gigantic foreign body was revealed - a fragment of a firecracker measuring 10mm * 6mm * 2mm. For comparison, the length of the eye is 22 - 23 mm ".

Doctors say that penetrating trauma to the eye with intraocular foreign bodies are included in the list of the most serious and severe conditions that an ophthalmologist is facing. Before ophthalmologists was a difficult task - to remove a foreign object, to keep the eye and eyesight.

"During the operation, doctors of the 23rd hospital removed blood, removed the damaged lens, the vitreous, to provide access to the foreign body and retina. A fragment of firecrack removed by a micro-pincer through the wound. Further, coagulation of the retina with an endolaser to prevent its detachment. The penetrating wound is seamed. In the postoperative period, intensive antibacterial and anti-inflammatory therapy was performed, "the Gorzdrava.

In the first months after the operation, a 10-year-old boy was regularly observed by ophthalmologists at the TsKKB No. 23 Hospital. As a result of the treatment after 2 months, the visual acuity of the left eye with correction was restored by 50 percent.

In the future, the patient is planned to implant an artificial iris and artificial lens for complete restoration of visual functions.

PHOTOS: Gorzdrava.