[Detachment of the choroid after cataract extraction]

Injections of air into the anterior chamber were applied by the authors in choroidal detachment and flat anterior chamber after 22 cataract extractions and 4 fistulizing operations in glaucoma (together 26 cases) after an ineffective conservative treatment. The deepening of the anterior chamber and reapposition of the choroid was achieved in all the cases. Special attention in applying this method was called to the deepening of the anterior chamber and to supply a considerable amount of air into the eye, so as to raise the intraocular pressure up to the normal values or even more. The air remained in the eye even for 7 days. In 12 cases there was a need to inject the air a second time because of an insufficient reapposition of the choroid after the resorption of the air finished or because of the recurrence of the detachment.