FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. — In eyes with severe injury, even when there is no light perception vision, there is no justification for primary enucleation.
“Unless the eye is completely destroyed, surgeons should never give up,” Ferenc Kuhn, MD, PhD, said at the Retina World Congress.
Many surgeons give up on these eyes because they believe there is irreversible damage, but statistics show that 57% of reconstructed eyes improve from no light perception to anywhere between light perception and reading vision (20/40). The risk for sympathetic ophthalmia is also an unacceptable