ArticleEmergency medicine Australasia : EMA2022
Sports-related ocular injuries at a tertiary eye hospital in Australia: A 5-year retrospective descriptive study.
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- Eye Injury Epidemiology in Australia: A 25-Year Systematic Review and Public Health Perspective.Clinical & experimental ophthalmology · 2025Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis on prevalence, pattern, and factors associated with ocular protection practices among welders in sub-Saharan Africa.Frontiers in public health · 2024Pooled it
- Injury Patterns in Soccer-Induced Maxillofacial Fractures and Ocular Trauma: A Narrative Review.Sports medicine - open · 2026Review
- Bibliometric analysis of published works in ocular trauma: a growing focus on open globe injury.International ophthalmology · 2025Review
- Vitreoretinal Injury Associated with Sports Ball Ocular Trauma.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2025Review
- Orchard Sports Injury and Illness Classification System (OSIICS) Version 15.Journal of sport and health science · 2024Article
- Sports-Related Pure Orbital Blowout Fractures in Japan: Differences in Demographic and Clinical Characteristics between Sports.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Discrepancy of eye injuries in mechanism, clinical features, and vision prognosis by different causative sports.Frontiers in public health · 2023Article
- International Olympic Committee (IOC) consensus paper on sports-related ophthalmology issues in elite sports.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2023Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo describe the demographics and outcomes of sports-related ocular injuries in an Australian tertiary eye hospital setting.
methodsRetrospective descriptive study from the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital from 2015 to 2020. Patient demographics, diagnosis and injury causation were recorded from baseline and follow-up. Outcomes included visual acuity (VA), intraocular pressure (IOP), ocular injury diagnosis, investigations and management performed.
resultsA total of 1793 individuals (mean age 28.67 ± 15.65 years; 80.42% males and 19.58% females) presented with sports-related ocular trauma. The top three injury-causing sports were soccer (n = 327, 18.24%), Australian rules football (AFL) (n = 306, 17.07%) and basketball (n = 215, 11.99%). The top injury mechanisms were projectile (n = 976, 54.43%) and incidental body contact (n = 506, 28.22%). The most frequent diagnosis was traumatic hyphaema (n = 725). Best documented VA was ≥6/12 at baseline in 84.8% and at follow-up in 95.0% of cases. The greatest risk of globe rupture/penetration was associated with martial arts (odds ratio [OR] 16.22); orbital blow-out fracture with skiing (OR 14.42); and hyphaema with squash (OR 4.18): P < 0.05 for all. Topical steroids were the most common treatment (n = 693, 38.7%). Computed tomography orbits/facial bones were the most common investigation (n = 184, 10.3%). The mean IOP was 16.1 mmHg; 103 (5.7%) cases required topical anti-ocular hypertensives. Twenty-six individuals (1.45%) required surgery with AFL contributing the most surgical cases (n = 5, 19.23%).
conclusionThe top three ocular injury causing sports were soccer, AFL and basketball. The most frequent injury was traumatic hyphaema. Projectiles posed the greatest risk.
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