Descemet's membrane detachment managed with perfluro-n-octane liquid

We report the case of a 68-year-old male who developed Descemet's membrane detachment after temporal clear corneal phacoemulsification which did not settle with air or viscoelastic injection. The Descemet's membrane was successfully reattached with restoration of 20/50 vision with the help...

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Autores principales: Kumar, Ashok M, Vaithianathan, Vanaja
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Brief Communications
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263255/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22218255
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.91346
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description We report the case of a 68-year-old male who developed Descemet's membrane detachment after temporal clear corneal phacoemulsification which did not settle with air or viscoelastic injection. The Descemet's membrane was successfully reattached with restoration of 20/50 vision with the help of perfluro-n-octane liquid. To our knowledge, this is the first such case to be reported.
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spelling pubmed-32632552012-01-25 Descemet's membrane detachment managed with perfluro-n-octane liquid Kumar, Ashok M Vaithianathan, Vanaja Indian J Ophthalmol Brief Communications We report the case of a 68-year-old male who developed Descemet's membrane detachment after temporal clear corneal phacoemulsification which did not settle with air or viscoelastic injection. The Descemet's membrane was successfully reattached with restoration of 20/50 vision with the help of perfluro-n-octane liquid. To our knowledge, this is the first such case to be reported. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3263255/ /pubmed/22218255 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0301-4738.91346 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Ophthalmology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3263255/
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