title: Penetrating keratoplasty for the exciting eye in sympathetic ophthalmia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  We report a case of sympathetic ophthalmitis where we performed penetrating keratoplasty on the exciting eye many years after the initial injury.
  
  
  METHODS
  Case report.
  
  
  RESULTS
  After penetrating keratoplasty, the patient achieved vision of 3/60 from preoperative perception of light.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Our experience shows that penetrating keratoplasty can restore useful vision in the previously injured exciting eye in sympathetic ophthalmitis. This case highlights a unique example where the inciting eye has ultimately become the eye with the better vision as the damage was limited.
authors.affiliation: Tennent Institute of Ophthalmology, Gartnavel General Hospital, Glasgow, UK. saraswathi_ramamurthi@yahoo.co.uk
authors.forename: Saraswathi
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ramamurthi
authors.forename: Kurt S
authors.initials: KS
authors.lastname: Cornish
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Steeples
authors.forename: Kanna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Ramaesh
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D015807:Eye Injuries, Penetrating / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D008297:Male; D008499:Medical Records; D009879:Ophthalmia, Sympathetic / Q000209:etiology / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D020127:Recovery of Function; D013997:Time Factors; D014792:Visual Acuity