A Case of Loss of LASIK Flap Due to Accidental Trauma.

Kim, Chul Woo; Kim, Jae Ho

Case Report

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2001;42(5):788-792.
Published online May 1, 2001.

A Case of Loss of LASIK Flap Due to Accidental Trauma.

Chul Woo Kim, Jae Ho Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.

외상에 의한 Loss of LASIK Flap 1 예

김철우(Chul Woo Kim),김재호(Jae Ho Kim)

Abstract

PURPOSE
Laser Assisted In Situ Keratomileusis(LASIK) is a preferred method to excimer laser photore-fractive keratectomy. In our paper, we insist that postoperative care, especially to avoid postoperative trauma. is considered to be important. CASE: A 22-years old boy was transferred into our hospital due to injuried left eye during playing basketball. His eye was received LASIK(OD: -7.00 Ds=-1.00 Dc Ax 50, OS: -8.00 Ds=-1.00 Dc Ax167) 1 years ago and then loss of LASIK flap developed due to this trauma. Injuried left eye of his was irrigated and then he weared therapeutic contact lens. RESULT: After wound healing, hazziness of traumatic cornea developed. He received lamellar keratoplasty for flap loss and corneal hazziness after postoperative accidental trauma. After receiving lamellar kerato-plasty, he maintains relatively good visual acuity(0.5 X -4.00 Dsph with K-840). CONCLUSION: As to review personel experience of the authors-lamellar keratoplasty for a flap loss and corneal hazziness after postopertive accidental trauma, we consider that it is an important vision-related complication of LASIK in the life and we report this unusual late complicated case with a review of available literature.

Key Words: Flap loss;LASIK