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WALTER W. TOM, MD; ROBERT DOTTERRER, MD; MARIO VILLALBA, MD
Royal Oak, Mich

Arch Surg. 1985;120(6):754.

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To the Editor.—We would like to express a word of caution regarding the use of the XANAR vitreous fluorophotometer¹ in the evaluation of retinal capillary permeability. Although our initial data recovered from this experimental model were found to be statistically significant,^1,2 further investigations at our institution did not reveal such definitive results.

The fluorophotometer may be so sensitive in the measurement of retinal capillary fluorescein leakage (to 10–⁹ g/mL) that there may be variation in measurements due to positioning of the slit lamp. One must also compare post—septic-challenge fluorescein concentrations to initial preseptic values and not absolute values between different dogs.

The vitreous fluorophotometer has great potential as a diagnostic tool in the evaluation of capillary permeability changes. We hope that other physicians with better laboratory research funding will test this model further. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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