A client injured the left eye while playing basketball when another player hit him in the eye with his elbow. The client complained that although the right eye was not affected, he is having difficulty now with the vision in that eye too
What does the nurse understand this phenomenon is known as? A) Cataracts
B) Psychosomatic blindness
C) Glaucoma
D) Sympathetic uveitis
D
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When a person experiences trauma followed by inflammation to the iris, ciliary body, and choroid layer of one eye, the vision in the untraumatized eye also becomes affected. The term for this phenomenon is sympathetic uveitis. Cataracts do not occur from trauma, they develop over time. Psychosomatic blindness does not relate to the clients visual disturbance because the client is not blind at this time. Glaucoma is an eye disorder that occurs over time and is not related to trauma to the eye.
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