SELF- INFLICTED EYE INJURY IN OPHTHALMOLOGIST’S PRACTICE

The types of self-inflicted eye injuries involve eye socket injuries, including damage to the eyeball and various periorbital injuries. Predisposing factors to self-inflicted injury are often mental illness and drug abuse. The article presents two cases of selfinflicted injury in young drug addicted men. The first patient hit himself in the eye with a ballpoint pen. The foreign body removed a week later represented a fragment of a pen 12 cm long and 7 mm in diameter. The injury did not have a fundamental effect on the visual acuity and the general somatic state of the patient. Knife orbitocranial self-inflicted injury, received by the second victim, led to the development of subatrophy of the damaged eyeball, atrophy of the optic nerve of the paired eye. The management of these patients requires a multidisciplinary approach.

eye, orbital trauma, cranio-orbital trauma, self-inflicted injury, self-injurious behavior, self-inflicted eye injury, drug addiction, schizophrenia

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