Corneal preparation of eye bank eyes for experimental surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy of dextran in balanced salt solution (BSS) as a preparation of eye bank corneas for experimental surgeries.

Methods: We used 12 eye bank eyes that were unsuitable for transplant. The corneas were removed from the globe and affixed to a Hanna artificial anterior chamber.

Use of human fibrin glue and amniotic membrane transplant in corneal perforation.

Purpose: To repair corneal perforation using human fibrin glue (HFG) and amniotic membrane transplant (AMT).

Methods: Three patients in whom central corneal perforations, approximately 2 mm in diameter, occurred after ocular or systemic disease were successfully cured using HFG and AMT. The technique consists first of using a high-viscosity sodium hyaluronate viscoelastic material to restore anterior chamber depth followed by a debridement of the ulcer.

Small peripheral anterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis.

Cataract surgery is routinely performed using an anterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (CCC). A manual surgical technique is described for performing a small (less than 1.5 mm diameter) anterior CCC.

Reticulated hyaluronic acid implant in nonperforating trabecular surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate experimentally and clinically the tolerance and efficacy of a reticulated hyaluronic acid implant in nonperforating trabecular surgery (NPTS).

Setting: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, Miami, Florida, USA, and Clinique Sourdille and Clinique Ophtalmologique Universitaire, Nantes, France.

Methods: In experimental surgery, NPTS was performed with and without a hyaluronic acid implant in 25 rabbit eyes.