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Correspondence
Use of sulphur hexafluoride for anterior chamber reformation following trabeculectomy
  1. ORLY WEINSTEIN,
  2. TZAFRIR OSHRY,
  3. ZVI TESSLER,
  4. TOVA LIFSHITZ
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Soroka Medical Center, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.82.10.1220

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      Editor,—Flat anterior chamber (AC) is a significant complication following trabeculectomy, which can cause serious sequelae.1 Treatment of flat AC may include drugs, torpedo dressing, or megasoft contact lens and reformation using hyaluronic acid, BSS, expandable gases, or air.2 3

      Between 1989 and 1996, 15 patients in our department underwent reformation of flat AC with sulphur hexafluoride (SF6) following a first standard Cairns trabeculectomy. Nine patients had …

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