[Consensual inflammatory reaction in chemical eye burn of the rabbit eye].

BACKGROUND

Consensual ocular response has been known to occur following intracranial stimulation of the trigeminal nerve, intracameral injection of prostaglandins and other substances, after paracentesis and contusio bulbi.

MATERIAL AND METHOD: We have examined the prostacyclin formation in both eyes after experimental alcali burn (0.25 mo/l NaOH) on 30 rabbits with ELISA over a follow up period of 14 days.

RESULTS

After the alcali burn the aqueous prostacyclin level on the right eye is increased from 327 pg/ml aqueous to 27098 pg/ml aqueous, but on the left it stays normally. In conjunctiva and anterior uvea we measured normal amounts of prostacyclin.

CONCLUSIONS

We could not find a consensual increase in prostacyclin formation in the anterior part of the fellow eye following alcali burn.