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1Dienst Oogziekten, AZ Middelheim, Antwerpen.
Bulletin De La Societe Belge D'Ophtalmologie
|January 1, 1996
Abstract:
t-PA can be used intra-operatively to liquify a large and elevated submacular blood clot and to facilitate the aspiration through a small retinotomy. In 15 consecutive patients we operated in this way, we noticed that an intra-operative subretinal injection of t-PA was never able to dissolve the blood clot completely. Therefore it was necessary to perform a large retinotomy in large hemorrhages.
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