Clinical Ophthalmology (Mar 2014)

Indirect cyclopexy for treatment of a chronic traumatic cyclodialysis cleft with hypotony

  • Chadha N,
  • Lamba T,
  • Belyea DA,
  • Merchant KY

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2014, no. default
pp. 591 – 594

Abstract

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Nisha Chadha, Tania Lamba, David A Belyea, Kunal Y MerchantDepartment of Ophthalmology, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA Abstract: Cyclodialysis cleft is a rare clinical finding and therefore, reports on surgical repair techniques in the literature are limited. Additionally, hypotony can make repair technically challenging. We share a novel, simple surgical approach to management of a case of chronic traumatic cyclodialysis cleft with a successful outcome.Keywords: surgical repair, low intraocular pressure, choroidals, shallow anterior chamber