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A 15-year-old student who nearly lost all vision in his right eye after being struck by a ballpoint pen finally regained 80% of his vision after undergoing two surgeries and months of treatment.
Dhikshit Anoop was struck in his right eye when his classmates were throwing ballpoint pens across the classroom. The severity of the incident led to a deep corneal tear and a traumatic cataract, putting him at risk of life-long blindness.
When Dhikshit's family took him to the hospital about 4-5 hours after the incident, he underwent the first surgery to repair the corneal tear and remove the traumatic cataract.
"When he first came to the hospital, his eye was in a terrible condition," Dr Parth Hemantkumar Joshi, an ophthalmologist at Aster Hospital Mankhool, told Khaleej Times. "His cornea, lens, and vitreous were injured. We informed the parents about the nature of the injury, the required treatment in a two-staged approach, and a relatively long recovery period of around four to six months with visual rehabilitation."
After the first surgery, Dhikshit was allowed to go home and let the stitches heal for more than a month. Once the stitches had healed, he went back in for his second surgery.
"After the eye was stabilized, we undertook the second, more definitive procedure," said Dr. Parth. "During this, all the damaged structures of the eye, like the lens and the vitreous, were removed and replaced. The procedure took a little over an hour. Eventually, we could save up to 75 to 80 per cent of his eyesight, which was an excellent outcome considering that he had zero vision in the right eye when he came in."
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