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TRAUMATIC HYPHAEMA TREATED WITH THE ANTIFIBRINOLYTIC DRUG TRANEXAMIC ACID
Author(s) -
BRAMSEN THORKILD
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
acta ophthalmologica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.534
H-Index - 87
eISSN - 1755-3768
pISSN - 1755-375X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1755-3768.1976.tb00438.x
Subject(s) - tranexamic acid , antifibrinolytic , medicine , incidence (geometry) , anesthesia , surgery , blood loss , physics , optics
During the year 1975 (Jan. 1st‐Dec. 31st) 72 patients, consecutively admitted to the eye department of Århus Kommunehospital with traumatic hyphaema, were treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid. Secondary haemorrhage occurred in one case. This incidence of secondary haemorrhage (1.4%) seems to be the lowest on record. A group of patients from the period 1965–1968, treated identically with the exception of the tranexamic acid, were selected for comparison. This group of 135 patients included 9 cases (6.7%) with a secondary haemorrhage. The difference between these two groups is statistically significant ( P < 0.05).