EPO binding to EPO receptor on erythroid precursors in the bone marrow in turn induces their survival, cell division, and differentiation to ultimately enucleate, producing reticulocytes that mature ...

or in instances where other injuries prevent the patient from actively participating in the decision to save or enucleate an eye in the first 14 days after injury; as in associated head injury.

A 28-year-old patient sustained severe blast facial injury. Fortunately, the eyes were intact and other associated injuries were not serious. Chest radiography revealed nopulmonary blast injury ...