Case Report

Recurrent Self-Induced Nontraumatic Orbital Emphysema Causing Orbital Compartment Syndrome with Optic Nerve Dysfunction

Table 1

Intraocular pressure in cases of orbital emphysema in which patients underwent emergency decompression.

ReferenceCases which underwent emergency decompressionIOP prior to decompression

Fleishman et al. 1984 [30]2(i) “Over 100”
(ii) Not stated
Dobler et al. 1993 [31]145
Hunts et al. 1994 [2]7(i) 20
(ii) 37
(iii) 35
(iv) 28
(v) Not stated
(vi) “Normal”
(vii) 21
Wearne et al. 1998 [32]120
Monaghan and Millar 2002 [6]1Not stated
Lee et al. 2006 [33]180
Chaudry et al. 2007 [34]125
Singh et al. 2007 [9]137
Furlani et al. 2009 [35]123
Chak et al. 2012 [36]146
Rowh et al. 2015 [37]179
Lin et al. 2016 [38]129

Measured at 23 initially but only underwent emergency decompression when situation progressed after more sneezing (no remeasurement of IOP stated).