[Fluorescence angiography of the anterior eye segment in the evaluation of impaired microcirculation within the diagnosis of severity of eye burns].

We used fluorescence angiography to study the vascular microcirculation in the anterior eye segment of 14 patients with severe eye bums. The severity of eye burns is not only related with an impaired blood circulation in the conjunctiva, it also depends on a microcirculation status of episcleral vessels. Different degrees of permeability of fluorescein through the conjunctival or episcleral vessels make it possible to specify circulation disorders in both cases. Whether the impaired microcirculation in the anterior eye segment is transient or not can be established through a second fluorescence angiography made during days 7-8 from the burn trauma. The severity of eye burn depends directly on the sizes of ischemic regions of the sclera.