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In one eye each of four cynomolgus monkeys, an 8-mm penetrating injury was made through the equator; there was retinal perforation with vitreous loss. None of the four eyes with this injury developed posterior vitreous detachment or retinal detachment during a follow-up period of 8 months to 1 year.
Another group of 26 monkeys had the same injury but also had 0.5 ml autologous whole blood injected into the vitreous at the time of injury. The eyes were examined weekly and enucleated at scheduled intervals from 1 day to 52 weeks post-injury. Posterior vitreous detachment occurred at the earliest at 2 weeks post-injury, and was ultimately present in 91% of the eyes. Vitreous detachment can occur either as a separation at the level of the internal limiting membrane or as a cleavage within the cortical vitreous. Retinal detachment occurred at the earliest at 8 weeks post-injury, and eventually was present in 50% of the eyes. The retinal detachment was tractional; no retinal breaks were detected in any of the eyes.
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This study was supported by grants EY02061 and EY03040 from the National Institutes of Health
Presented at the 1984 meeting of the Club Jules Gonin in Lausanne, Switzerland
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Hsu, HT., Ryan, S.J. Natural history of penetrating ocular injury with retinal laceration in the monkey. Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 224, 1–6 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02144122
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