Prolonged ocular hypotension: would ciliary tissue transplantation help.

Aims: Ocular hypotony and phthisis bulbi from persistent fistulae, ciliochoridal detachments, or inflammation, that cannot be treated currently. However, complete shutdown of the ciliary epithelium is rare. Secreting, transplanted ciliary tissue could restore the IOP to a level where further visual damage would not occur or even be reversed.

Ciliary tissue transplantation in the rabbit.

Irreversible damage of the ciliary body can be responsible for prolonged ocular hypotony and phthisis bulbi, which, currently, cannot be treated. The aim of this study was to achieve survival of morphologically normal ciliary tissue (CT) transplants in the anterior chamber of a rabbit's eye. Outbred female New Zealand albino rabbits received CT allografts, which were placed on to the surface of the host iris.