A 27-year-old woman with poorly controlled type 1 diabetes had already lost sight in her right eye long before the accident. Then glass injured that same blind eye, surgeons repaired it, and about ten weeks later, her immune system turned on the eye she still used.
The case, described by ophthalmologists led by the King Khaled Eye Specialist Hospital and Research Center in Riyadh and published in BMC Ophthalmology, documents a rare inflammatory disease colliding with advanced diabetic eye disease in a woman who could not afford to lose either.
