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Dexon was used as suture material in 26 cases of cataract surgery and in 46 cases of extraocular muscle surgery. It is better than chromic catgut in muscle surgery, since it produces less conjunctival irritation and no granulomas. In cataract surgery, on the contrary, it causes a pronounced irritation of the anterior segment and rather ofter a severe uveitis, probably because the sutures are external.
Since we use a very strict control of the viability of the endothelium of the graft, we have no more failures in corneal grafting not even in cases with bad prognoses, such as Fuchs' endothelial dystrophy. On the contrary, in corneal grafting without this control, we had failures in 20% of the cases.
A 59-year-old woman has been treated for 5 months with penicillamine for a rheumatoid arthritis and developed a myasthenia syndrome with ptosis, diplopia, dysphagia and asthenia. This myasthenia was slowly cured after suppression of the penicillamine and administration of Mestinon, so that after 3 months, the anticholinesterase medication could be stopped.
Since we use a very strict control of the viability of the endothelium of the graft, we have no more failures in corneal grafting, even not in cases with bad prognosis, such as Fuch's endothelial dystrophy. On the contrary, in corneal grafting without this control, we had a failure in 20% of the cases.
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The incidence of aphakia in our series of retinal detachment is 14.82%. The incidence of retinal detachment in aphakia is 2.74%. The use of alpha-chymotrypsin does not influence this incidence. In our own patients, we did not find a sex predominance, although there was a predominance of the male sex in the referred group. The mean age of the patients affected by aphakic retinal detachment was 65.87 years and 82.6% of the cases occurred above the age of 56 years. There was no statistical significant difference between the right and the left eye involvement. Finally, 38.37% of the detachments appeared during the first year after the cataract extraction, 24.4% were myopic and 14.66% bilateral.
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In a nonselected material of 103 retinal detachments in emmetropes and hyperopes, only 2 familial cases were found (2%).
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