PURPOSE To report 2 cases of delayed spontaneous Descemet membrane (DM) reattachment following big-bubble deep anterior lamellar keratoplasty (DALK). METHODS A 21-year-old man with keratoconus and a 36-year-old woman with corneal macular dystrophy underwent big-bubble DALK. No injury to DM was noted intraoperatively or postoperatively. Postoperatively, the patients developed central DM detach...

PURPOSE To determine whether injection of a soluble antigen, ovalbumin (OVA), into the anterior chamber of cynomolgus monkey eyes would impair the ability of these animals to subsequently develop delayed hypersensitivity when confronted by this antigen in immunogenic form. METHODS OVA or phosphate-buffered saline was injected into the anterior chamber of adult cynomolgus monkeys that were sub...

Purpose. To report the incidence and outcomes of anterior chamber gas bubble formation during femtosecond laser flap creation for laser-assisted in situ keratomileusis (LASIK). Methods. The charts of 2,886 consecutive eyes that underwent femtosecond LASIK from May 2011 through August 2014 were retrospectively reviewed. The incidence, preoperative characteristics, intraoperative details, and pos...

Immune privilege is extended to allogeneic tissues placed into the anterior chamber of the eye and results in part from the induction of anterior chamber-associated immune deviation (ACAID)--a condition in which the host is capable of making humoral antibodies and cytotoxic T cells specific for the antigens in question, but is selectively suppressed in its capacity to generate delayed-type hype...

INTRODUCTION There are various reasons for the lens dislocation. Spontaneous dislocation of a clear lens is extremely rare, especially its dislocation to the anterior chamber. CASE OUTLINE The author presents a case of spontaneous clear lens dislocation to the anterior chamber in both eyes in a patient without the history of any trauma. Dislocation occurred spontaneously, first in the left ey...

PURPOSE To evaluate the influence of irrigation of the anterior chamber with heparin sodium on postoperative inflammation after pediatric cataract surgery. SETTING Kartal Training and Research Hospital, First Eye Clinic, Istanbul, Turkey. DESIGN Randomized prospective double-blind study. METHODS Fourteen consecutive eyes from 14 patients aged 8.9 +/- 5.9 years, (range 3-18 years) (group 1...

BACKGROUND Ocular biometric parameters can be influenced by race, ethnicity, and genetics; their differences across different populations can probably explain differences in refractive errors in these populations. The aim of this study is to determine the normal range of axial length, anterior chamber depth, lens thickness, and vitreous chamber depth in the population of Shahroud in the north o...

The Barron artificial anterior chamber (Katena, Denville, NJ) is an innovative development in corneal transplant and lamellar surgery. The chamber is a specialized device that allows a donor corneoscleral cap of tissue to be anatomically positioned ‘‘epithelial side up.’’ The chamber is used to mount the donor tissue and maintain adequate pressure while lamellar dissection or full thickness tre...

purpose: to determine anterior chamber depth (ac depth) changes during a 6 month period after phacoemulsification cataract surgery and foldable intraocular lens (iol) implantation. methods: in a cross-sectional study, 85 eyes of 85 patients were evaluated for ac depth and capsulo-rrhexis size one and six months after the procedure. results: patients included 44 male and 41 female subjects with ...