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David W. Plocher, MD
St Paul

Arch Ophthalmol. 1985;103(6):762-763.

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To the Editor.

—Ophthalmologic risks of inversion devices used for exercise or therapy recently have been discussed.^1,2 I have previously reported periorbital petechiae in two middleaged aspirin users and I did a pilot study to expand on earlier work in two ways: (1) Half of the 20 young healthy male subjects (average age, 21 years) were given 325 mg of aspirin three hours prior to inversion, thereby prolonging their bleeding times by 3.4 ± 0.8 minutes. (2) Ocular pneumoplethysmography (OPG)⁴ was used because of its more objective endpoints compared with ophthalmodynamometry used by other investigators^1,2 and its ability to calculate ocular blood flow (OBF).⁵ Each of the 20 participants was subjected to three successive ten-minute inversions, separated by 15-minute rest periods. Although numerous physiologic variables were monitored and are being published elsewhere,⁶ herein we report visual acuity, intraocular pressure (IOP), OPG, OBF, petechiae, and retinal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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