Survival of an eight-year-old child with a very severe high-tension electrical burn injury: a case report.

We present the management and survival of an eight-year-old boy with a severe high-tension electrical burn injury of 68% of total body surface area in a surgical intensive care unit, as a result of a well-planned and applied treatment strategy. Subsequent to escharotomy and fasciotomy operations under general anesthesia, the patient was taken into the surgical intensive care unit. In addition, patient underwent nine more operations including right femur disarticulation and split-thickness skin graftings with homografts from his brother and autografts.

Ten-year follow-up of epikeratophakia for the correction of high myopia.

Objective: To determine the long-term functional results of epikeratophakia for myopic patients.

Design: Retrospective, noncomparative, interventional case series.

Participants: Twenty-two patients (32 eyes; average age, 43+/-6 years) who underwent epikeratophakia surgery for high myopia.

Corneal sensitivity 10 years after epikeratoplasty.

Purpose: To assess corneal sensitivity in patients 10 or more years after epikeratoplasty for myopia, aphakia, hyperopia, and keratoconus.

Methods: A total of 45 eyes of 33 patients (age range at examination 33 to 55 yr) were included in the study. Corneal sensitivity thresholds using an electromagnetic aesthesiometer (Draeger) were measured at various locations on the lenticule and the recipient cornea.