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Healon5 tamponade of corneal perforation during transplantation surgery
12nd Department of Ophthalmology, Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary. radogab@szem2.sote.hu
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
|September 17, 2002
Abstract:
In "a chaud" keratoplasty in cases of corneal perforation, the main difficulty is the trephination of the recipient cornea in a soft eye. A temporary tamponade of the perforation can be provided by filling the anterior chamber with sodium hyaluronate 2.3% (Healon5). The cornea can then be grasped with vacuum and trephinated.