Solar Chorioretinal Burn*

Das, Tulsi; Nirankari, M.S.; Chaddah, M. R.

doi:10.1016/0002-9394(56)91056-x

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“…Solar retinopathy refers to maculopathy that occurs following exposure to solar radiation 1 2 3 4. There is a wide spectrum of solar-induced injuries and great individual variation in susceptibility for developing such lesions 5.…”

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“…Solar retinopathy1 2 3 4 5 generally occurs in patients who have viewed an eclipse or have gazed directly at the sun, but it has also been described in patients who have minimally viewed the sun3 or who have been sunbathing, not sungazing 3 6. Recently one of the largest series ever published on solar retinopathy7 reported that up to 49% of patients affected could not remember having looked at the sun.…”

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Presumed idiopathic outer lamellar defects of the fovea and chronic solar retinopathy: an OCT and fundus autofluorescence study

dell’Omo

Konstantopoulou

Wong

et al. 2009

British Journal of Ophthalmology

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Presumed idiopathic outer lamellar defects of the fovea and chronic solar retinopathy: an OCT and fundus autofluorescence study

dell’Omo

Konstantopoulou

Wong

et al. 2009

British Journal of Ophthalmology

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“…This injury has been reported in individuals who have fixedly stared at the sun (solar retinitis) [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19] or a welding arc [20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27], usually for more than a few minutes. Photoretinitis is ophthalmoscopically observed as retinal changes such as edema, white spots, or holes, and is accompanied by symptoms such as decreased visual acuity, blurred vision and scotoma.…”

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Evaluation of Blue-Light Hazards from Various Light Sources

Okuno¹,

Saito²,

Ojima³

2002

Progress in Lens and Cataract Research

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Visible light of short wavelength (blue light) may cause a photochemical injury to the retina, called photoretinitis or blue-light hazard. In this study, various light sources were evaluated for blue-light hazard. These sources include the sun, the arc associated with arc welding and plasma cutting, molten steel, iron and glass, the interior of furnaces, the arc or envelope of discharge lamps, the filament or envelope of incandescent lamps, the envelope of fluorescent lamps and light-emitting diodes. The spectral radiance of each light source was measured, and blue-light effective radiance and the corresponding permissible exposure time per day were calculated in accordance with the ACGIH (American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists) standard. The sun, arc welding, plasma cutting and the arc of discharge lamps were found to have extremely high effective radiances with corresponding permissible exposure times of only 0.6-40 s, suggesting that viewing these light sources is very hazardous to the retina. Other light sources were found to have low effective radiances under the study conditions and would pose no hazard, at least for short exposure times.

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“…A higher incidence of solar retinopathy is reported among males (Cogan,I963;Flynn,Ig60a,b;Gupta and Mehra,I964;MacFaul, i969; Das, Nirankari, and Chaddah, 1956). …”

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