Abstract
It was observed long ago that after puncture of the anterior chamber and withdrawal of the aqueous humor the chamber refills within a short period of time. The composition of the fluid accumulating in the chambers of the eye under such conditions is different from that of normal aqueous humor. The most important difference is that in protein concentration. In normal aqueous humor the protein concentration is less than 1% of that in plasma. In the secondary or plasmoid aqueous humor, collected some time after paracentesis there may be a 50-100 fold increase. The effect is very marked in rabbits, less pronounced in primates (Davson 1956; Kronfeld et al. 1941.
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Bill, A. (1980). The Physiology of the Paracentesis Effect and its Recovery. In: Wundheilung des Auges und ihre Komplikationen / Wound Healing of the Eye and its Complications. Symposien der Deutschen Ophthalmologischen Gesellschaft. J.F. Bergmann-Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-80498-4_11
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