Retinal Damage from Light

Hochheimer, Bernard F.; D’Anna, Salvatore A.; Calkins, Joseph L.

doi:10.1016/0002-9394(79)90413-6

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“…Recent work by Eichenbaum et al supports these findings. They noted a graded histologic and electron microscopic response to a fibreoptic light source in which the retinas were continuously exposed for 2, 4, and 6 h. [107][108][109][110] Noell showed that a single 5-min exposure to light did not induce any significant damage to the retina. However, three or four 5-min exposures, each followed by a 1-h dark recovery time, led to significant retinal damage.…”

Section: Variables In Photochemical Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retinal light toxicity

Youssef

Sheibani

Albert

2010

Eye

274

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The ability of light to enact damage on the neurosensory retina and underlying structures has been well understood for hundreds of years. While the eye has adapted several mechanisms to protect itself from such damage, certain exposures to light can still result in temporal or permanent damage. Both clinical observations and laboratory studies have enabled us to understand the various ways by which the eye can protect itself from such damage. Light or electromagnetic radiation can result in damage through photothermal, photomechanical, and photochemical mechanisms. The following review seeks to describe these various processes of injury and many of the variables, which can mitigate these modes of injury.

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Section: Variables In Photochemical Injurymentioning

confidence: 99%

Retinal light toxicity

Youssef

Sheibani

Albert

2010

Eye

274

204

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“…The very intense light exposure from an operating microscope used-during cataract surgery [Hochheimer et al, 1979;Irving et al, 1984] caused some 'derangement' of OS. but many were relatively normal with abundant membrane stacks.…”

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confidence: 99%

Whorl-Like Outer Segments in the Retina of the Mole (<i>Scalopus aquaticus</i>)

Grim¹

1990

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The retina of the common mole, Scalopus aquaticus, has been studied with the transmission electron microscope. Structures examined include: pigment epithelium, outer and inner segments of the sensory cells, and synaptic ribbons of the outer plexiform layer. Rods and cones described in this species by previous light microscopic studies are not seen with electron microscopic techniques. Instead, the mole retina contains peculiar outer segments consisting of whorls of membranes. These whorls have some similarities to dystrophic retinas of several vertebrates. The possibility of their being caused by extraordinary light exposure is discussed, also. The appearance of the sensory cells suggests that they are functional receptors.

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“…Their ophthalmoscopic appearance was, in overwhelming number of cases [5,6,7], usually discrete, isolated, of oval shape, 1 to 1,5 disc diameter in size. On the contrary, De Laey et al [8] documented two confluent lesions beneath the fovea.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And, secondly, light-induced retinopathies arose with operating microscope equipped with Video-recorder, not with operating microscope provided with cinematographs. Previous literature [5,6,7,8] have never alluded to such a circumstance of appearance.…”

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Three cases with light-induced retinopathy

et al. 1988

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Three patients presented a characteristic retinopathy presumably induced by light arising from operating microscope during extracapsular cataract extraction combined with intraocular lens insertion. The operating microscope was equipped with video-recorder. Light sources were tungsten bulb. All cases were asymptomatic and an inspection at the post-operative control examination led to the detection of this type of retinopathy.

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Retinal Damage from Light

Cited by 81 publications

References 8 publications

Retinal light toxicity

Retinal light toxicity

Whorl-Like Outer Segments in the Retina of the Mole (<i>Scalopus aquaticus</i>)

Three cases with light-induced retinopathy

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