1996 Volume 15 Issue 3-4 Pages 3-4_131-3-4_136
A trial of surgical procedure for the canine glaucoma was performed by implanting the hollow fiber for hemodialysis into the anterior chamber. Only left eyes of four healthy adult dogs were used to implant a hollow fiber (Thickness: 0.016mm, Inner diameter: 0.125mm) per eye in the anterior chamber and subconjunctival tissue. The right eyes were intact or received the no-fiber shamoperation. Animals were post-operatively treated topically with eye drop of antibiotics three times a day. Systemic antibiotics were also administered. Intraocular pressures were measured with Alcon PTGR and Tono-PenR after the surgery. As a result, intraocular pressures were decreased in the implanted eyes between day 1 and day 6 of the post-surgical period, compared with those in other eyes used as control. Turbidity in the anterior chamber was found in two of the implanted eyes about a week after the surgery, and then diminished along with the futher progression of postoperative course. Adhesion of fibrin onto the fiber was observed in the anterior chamber from one to six weeks after surgery in all cases. Fibrin can be observed not only the outer surfaces but also the inner surface of the implanted fiber as investigated using a scanning electron microcopy.
