{"id":11708,"date":"2025-11-11T12:56:33","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T17:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/?p=11708"},"modified":"2025-12-11T15:23:26","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T20:23:26","slug":"physicians-weekly-qa-with-david-fleischman-examining-mortality-risk-geriatric-ocular-trauma","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/2025\/11\/physicians-weekly-qa-with-david-fleischman-examining-mortality-risk-geriatric-ocular-trauma\/","title":{"rendered":"Physicians Weekly Q&amp;A with David Fleischman: Mortality Risk &amp; Geriatric Ocular Trauma"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-11713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2025\/11\/Geriatric-Ocular-Trauma-e1763661022976-300x264.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"176\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In an early November 2025 <em>Physicians Weekly<\/em> Q&amp;A, Interim Chair and Sterling A. Barrett Distinguished Associate Professor of Ophthalmology <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/directory\/david-fleischman-md\/\">David Fleischman, MD, MS, FACS<\/a>,<\/strong> recapped a retrospective cohort study in which his faculty-mentored team analyzed the correlation between geriatric ocular trauma and risk of mortality. In this study, Dr. Fleischman and co-authors evaluated five-year mortality rates in geriatrics (65+YO) patients who had sustained eye injuries. Over the five-year study period, Dr. Fleischman&#8217;s team compared overall mortality and annual mortality rates for study subjects (non-controls) who had experienced ocular trauma with age-matched controls whose medical histories included age-related nuclear cataracts, but no ocular trauma.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6948\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 210px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6948\" src=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/01\/David-Fleischman-2-e1726240822196.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/01\/David-Fleischman-2-e1726240822196.png 270w, https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/ophth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/1268\/2023\/01\/David-Fleischman-2-e1726240822196-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 9pt\">David Fleischman, MD, MS, FACS<\/span><\/strong><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The findings of this May 2025 <em>PLOS One<\/em> study &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0324821\"><em>Geriatric ocular trauma and mortality: A retrospective cohort study<\/em><\/a> &#8212; indicate that geriatric patients who have experienced ocular trauma are at a higher risk of mortality than age-matched controls without such injuries. In a Q&amp;A discussion with <em>Physicians Weekly<\/em>&#8216;s Lisa Tomaszewski, PhD, Dr. Fleischman underscored the importance of close follow-up with higher-risk older patients who have experienced ocular trauma, both to improve patient outcomes and to inform future study aimed at identifying the causes of geriatric periorbital trauma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">** To read a complete transcript of Dr. Fleischman&#8217;s November 2025 Q&amp;A with <em>Physicians Weekly, <\/em>click <a href=\"https:\/\/www.physiciansweekly.com\/post\/qa-addressing-increased-mortality-in-geriatric-patients-who-have-experienced-ocular-trauma\"><strong>HERE<\/strong><\/a>. **<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an early November 2025 Physicians Weekly Q&amp;A, Sterling A. 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