[Medical treatment of ocular burns]

Chemical burns, especially alkali burns, can induce severe damage to the eye, not only of its surface, but also of its deep structures. Ocular chemical burns require urgent medical care and sometimes surgery. Medical management of chemical burns of the ocular surface includes controlling the inflammation of the underlying corneal stroma, preserving limbal vasculature, and restoring the limbal stem cell population if necessary, as early as the 3rd week following the injury, which sometimes also requires surgery consisting for the most part of amniotic membrane and/or limbal stem cell transplantation.