Title: How to manage a case of hot orbit?

Biography:

Mohamed A Eldesouky has completed his PhD at the age of 36 years from Tanta University and Postdoctoral Studies from School of Medicine, University of Tennessee, Memphis. He is the Director of oculoplasty, and ocular pathology service in Tanta University Eye Hospital. He has published more than 25 papers in reputed journals.

Abstract

Hot orbit is a term applied to a group of orbital disorders presented with the cardinal manifestations of inflammations as pain, redness, hotness and impaired ocular motility. This group of orbital disorders which varies from trivial as orbital hematoma to a very sever life and sometimes life threatening disorders as orbital metastasis and fungal orbital infections. In this study we describe our protocol in Tanta University Hospital Ophthalmology department, Egypt, for how to manage a case of hot orbit. In this study we present a tentative novel classification of hot orbit basically into infectious, non-infectious and mascaraed groups.