Therapeutic procedures recommended include miotics (Rychener, I944), hot and cold compresses (Kushner, 1959), and anterior chamber irrigation with proteolytic enzymes (Podos, Liebman, and Pollen, I964; Sinskey and Kricheskey, I962; Scheie, Ashley, and Weiner, 196I; Pierse and Legrice, I964). Sinskey and Kricheskey (I959) observed that neither miotics nor mydriatics had any detectable effect on ...

MoiE and more attention is being paid to the question of intra-ocular acrylic implants since Ridley's original venture into this field. More recently, interest has changed from Ridley's original idea of an acrylic lens replacing the extracted lens in position behind the pupil to the anterior chamber implant. It is possible that this has happened because of the greater ease of insertion of the a...

BACKGROUND Perfluorocarbon liquids are frequently used as intraoperative tools in vitreoretinal surgery and may occasionally be retained in the vitreous cavity. We report a patient who underwent pars plana vitrectomy for a giant tear after receiving blunt trauma to his right eye and sustained postoperative perfluorocarbon liquid residue in the anterior chamber in spite of an intact crystalline ...

PURPOSE To quantify fibrin degradation products after topical and subconjunctival administration of recombinant tissue plasminogen activator in rabbits. METHODS Fibrin formation was induced in the anterior chamber in 25 rabbits. Subsequently, five rabbits received an injection of r-TPA (positive control) in the anterior chamber, another 10 received a subconjunctival injection of r-TPA, and th...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to describe the clinical and histopathological features of a 36-year-old male with hundreds of recurrent, unilateral, free-floating, pigmented cysts in the anterior chamber causing ocular hypertension. PROCEDURES The patient was referred to ocular oncology for blurry vision of the right eye and was found to have myriad pigmented, free-floating cysts in the an...

PURPOSE To determine whether immunosuppression using cyclosporine interferes with anterior chamber associated immune deviation (ACAID) and can promote survival of retinal allografts in the anterior chamber. METHODS Neonatal neural retinas of C57BL/6 mice or ovalbumin were injected into the anterior chamber of BALB/c adult mice. In the test group recipients were injected with cyclosporine (10 ...