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C Eckardt

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Pupillary stretching. A new procedure in vitreous surgery.

During vitreoretinal procedure, 26 aphakic eyes with proliferative vitreoretinopathy and diabetic traction retinal detachment were treated with a new technique for surgical dilatation of a miotic immobile pupil. Four iris loop sutures were laid in such a way that stretching of the pupil in the main directions of the four quadrants was made possible, thus forming a large, square pupil. No functional iris lesion was caused in nine eyes that developed miosis only during surgery. The other 15 eyes already had a miotic and rigid pupil preoperatively. In all but one of these cases, the stretching caused multiple small sphincter tears. The pupils remained partially dilated, but showed a reaction to miotics and mydriatics.

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Keratoprosthesis as an aid to learning surgical techniques on cadaver eyes.

Practice on cadaver eyes can be an essential aid for residents and inexperienced surgeons in learning operative techniques. Cadaver eyes, however, have been of only limited utility for teaching highly complicated procedures because of the obscuring of intraocular structures caused by the rapid post mortem onset of corneal swelling. We have overcome this problem by the use of a silicone keratoprosthesis that provides an excellent view of all intraocular tissues. Our model allows the use of donor eyes unsuitable for transplantation and facilitates the learning of even complicated cataract surgery, and vitrectomy techniques on the human eye. It thus can reduce the rate of complications in operations on patients.

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