Anterior Chamber Worm
by Chris Kurz MD, Majid Moshirfar MD, Mark Mifflin MD
Winner of the 2009 OPMI Lumera Film Festival on Eyetube.net in the Artistic Video Category. A surgical video demonstrating a technique for removal of an anterior chamber parasite.
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Comments (8)
it is possible it is one it laud-lauds
fantastic
You might have consider intraocular lidocaine to put the worm to asleep before the visoelastic, but it didn't look like it was moving around that much. I'll have to upload my video of removing 1000 x 80 micron cornea adult worm some time.
thanks mehdi! the patient was a middle-aged caucasion female with a remote travel history but no known explanation for how this dancer got into her eye!
Amazing video Chris! I missed this technique during fellowship. What were the demographics and origin of the patient?
thanks for the comments. great questions. i wish i had answers for you, unfortunately, i dont. not sure how it got in the eye and due to unforeseen events during specimen processing, it is my understanding, that we unable to determine exactly what kind of worm it was.
Interesting case! How did it get into the eye?
What kind of worm is it? How did it get into the Anterior Chamber?