Gradual spontaneous resolution of corneal bloodstaining after anterior chamber irrigation for rebleeding secondary to traumatic hyphema

Spontaneous hyphema secondary to iris vascular tufts.

Irrigation of Anterior Chamber

Every one who has any extended experience in operating, as most of us have, in these parts, must have constantly met with cases in which pieces of residual cortex refuse, in a most teasing way, to be delivered by external manipulation of' the eyeball, and which ultimately have to extracted by the scoop, the use of which appreciably diminishes the certainty of success. Some six years ago, after ...

Sterile anterior-chamber irrigation.

As a general rule normal saline is employed which has been made up by the hospital dispenser and stored in glass-stoppered hottles. As these are not sterile on the outside. the usual procedure is for a nurse who has not scrubbed up, to pour the saline into a sterilized undine or container. In doing this there is a. very good chance that she will contaminate the neck of the bottle with her finge...

Spontaneous hyphema associated with anterior uveitis.

Few reports have described hyphema in association with anterior uveitis. Five cases of anterior chamber haemorrhage are reported in patients with five different anterior uveitic entities: Reiter's syndrome, juvenile chronic arthritis, ankylosing spondylitis, idiopathic anterior uveitis, and herpes simplex. Hyphema has been reported in association with idiopathic non-granulomatous anterior uveit...

Serial Photographic Monitoring of Spontaneous Clearance of Corneal Blood Stain in a Child with Traumatic Hyphema