Traumatic hyphaema treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid II.

During the year 1976 (January 1st to December 31st) 75 patients, consecutively admitted to the eye department of Arhus Kommunehospital with traumatic hyphaema, were treated with the antifibrinolytic drug tranexamic acid. No secondary haemorrhage occurred. The patients were not confined to bed. The eyes were not patched and the activities of the patients were not restricted. In a previous series from 1975 where the patients were confined to bed but otherwise treated identically with tranexamic acid one out of 72 patients had a secondary haemorrhage. When the two materials are combined one out of 147 patients had a secondary haemorrhage corresponding to 0.68%.