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Arch Ophthalmol. 2001;119:135-137.

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Nonhealing or persistent wound leakage can be encountered in sclerotomy sites after multiple pars plana vitrectomies. Therapeutic modalities such as patch graft have been reported to manage the persistent limbal wound leaks.¹ Cyanoacrylate tissue adhesives have been successfully used in the management of corneal perforation and leaking filtering bleb to circumvent the need for surgical interventions such as therapeutic keratoplasty and conjunctival flap.^2-3 We describe herein the technique and successful use of cyanoacrylate adhesives to manage postoperative hypotony and associated choroidal detachment caused by leakage from sclerotomy after pars plana vitrectomy.

Report of a Case

A 51-year-old white woman with a history of insulin-dependent diabetes had undergone 3 prior pars plana vitrectomies in the right eye between 1995 and 1998 for proliferative diabetic retinopathy and recurrent vitreous hemorrhage. After the first 2 surgeries, the visual acuity had returned to 20/20 for several months. Six months after the third surgery, the visual acuity OD had . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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Corresponding author: Andrew J. W. Huang, MD, MPH, Department of Ophthalmology, University of Minnesota, University of Minnesota, 420 Delaware St SE, MMC 493, Minneapolis, MN 55455 (e-mail: huang088@umnedu).