Endocrine Abstracts

Background: Blunt ocular trauma causes commotio retinae, a retinal opacification that accounts for over a third of all retinal injuries. Poor outcomes occur when the macula is affected, which accounts for 1/3 of cases and 3/4 cases in those at high injury risk, causing permanent visual loss due to selective photoreceptor death. This is seen in humans, and reproduced in our animal model, as loss of the outer nuclear layer (ONL) on histological and optical coherence tomography (...