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Extraction of Iron from the Rabbit Anterior Chamber with Reverse Iontophoresis

Ocular siderosis is a common eye disease caused by retention of an iron-containing intraocular foreign body in the eye. Iron-containing intraocular foreign bodies may cause severe inflammatory reaction and affect visual function. Currently the optimal treatment method of ocular siderosis is a moot p...

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Autores principales: Sun, Shoubin, Diao, Huijie, Zhao, Fali, Bai, Jianhai, Zhou, Yuan, Cui, Hao, Zhang, Liqiong
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4518192/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26257921
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/425438
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Sumario:Ocular siderosis is a common eye disease caused by retention of an iron-containing intraocular foreign body in the eye. Iron-containing intraocular foreign bodies may cause severe inflammatory reaction and affect visual function. Currently the optimal treatment method of ocular siderosis is a moot point. This study used the reverse iontophoresis technique to noninvasively extract iron from the rabbit anterior chamber. By slit lamp observation and histological examination, reverse iontophoresis treatment has a good effect on ocular siderosis. Reverse iontophoresis seems to be a noninvasive and promising approach to extract iron from the anterior chamber to treat ocular siderosis.