April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Measure of the intraocular pressure with three sensors during manual Perfluorocarbon Liquid injection in UV photo-crosslinkable polymer model of the human eye
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • Marco Dal Vecchio
    Clinica Oculistica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Edoardo Grosso
    Clinica Oculistica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Antonio Maria Fea
    Clinica Oculistica, Università di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Davide Casalena
    Chilab, Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Simone Marasso
    Chilab, Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Matteo Cocuzza
    Chilab, Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
    Istituto dei Materiali per l'Elettronica ed il Magnetismo, CNR, Parma, Italy
  • Giancarlo Canavese
    Center for Space Human Robotics, IIT, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
  • Luciano Scaltrito
    Chilab, Materials and Microsystems Laboratory, Politecnico di Torino, Torino, Italy
    Microla Optoelectronics srl, Chivasso, Italy
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships Marco Dal Vecchio, None; Edoardo Grosso, None; Antonio Fea, None; Davide Casalena, None; Simone Marasso, None; Matteo Cocuzza, None; Giancarlo Canavese, None; Luciano Scaltrito, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 1435. doi:
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      Marco Dal Vecchio, Edoardo Grosso, Antonio Maria Fea, Davide Casalena, Simone Marasso, Matteo Cocuzza, Giancarlo Canavese, Luciano Scaltrito; Measure of the intraocular pressure with three sensors during manual Perfluorocarbon Liquid injection in UV photo-crosslinkable polymer model of the human eye. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):1435.

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Abstract

Purpose: To measure the intraocular pressure (IOP) during the manual Perfluorocarbon Liquid (PFCL) injection in a simulated pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) using 23 and 25 Gauge infusion ports in a model of human eye

Methods: A UV photo-crosslinkable polymer model of the human eye was employed to measure the absolute pressure from three sensors during the manual injection of PFCL in a simulated 23 and 25 Gauge PPV. The IOP has been collected by 3 sensors, both in 23 and 25 G, in three experimental settings: in the controlled Venting Gas Forced Infusion (VGFI) of Balanced Salt Solution (BSS) at 30 mmHg with closed eyeball, in VGFI of F-Decalin at 8 PSI and 12 mmHg of preset BSS infusion, and finally in the manual injection of PFCL at 12 mmHg preset BSS infusion. Two experienced vitreoretinal surgeons have repeated twice the manual injection of PFCL (F-Decalin, Fluoron Gmbh, Ulm, Germany) in order to simulate the real situation during PPV with a Stellaris PC vitrectomy machine (Bausch+Lomb, Rochester, NY, USA)

Results: In the VGFI of BSS in closed eyeball at 30 mmHg, the IOP resulted higher than the preset, but constant (23G: mean 43.70 ± 0,65 mmHg; 25G: mean 47.89 ± 0.13 mmHg). In the VGFI injection of PFCL at 8 PSI and 12 mmHg of BSS infusion, the IOP shown a little variation (23G: mean 29,03 ± 0,31 mmHg; 25G: mean 27,56 ± 0,20 mmHg) whereas a wide range in IOP values has been detected during the manual F-Decalin injection at 12 mmHg of BSS infusion (23G: min 17.64, max. 120.70, mean 55.25 ± 13.14 mmHg; 25G: min. 22.67, max. 73.31, mean 53.49 ± 13.25 mmHg)

Conclusions: During a 25 or 23 Gauge PPV, the surgeon must temporally inject a certain amount of PFCL to flatten the retina and perform various maneuvers (laser treatment, membranes peeling, etc.). Since usually the injection is performed manually by a syringe, the pressure at the tip’s is unknown. In our experiments, the IOP measured by the probe in the macular site has been significantly higher than the other two, both in 23 G and in 25 G experiments, suggesting that the direct injection of fluid from the sclerotomy opposite to the macula may add a certain role in a iatrogenic damage. Our study’s outcome has shown very high and unsteady IOP values for manual injection, therefore seems safer to rely on the VFGI control for the PFCL injection

Keywords: 473 computational modeling • 568 intraocular pressure • 764 vitreous substitutes  
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