Surgical intervention for paediatric blepharoptosis: a 6-year case series
Autor: | Suzannah R. Drummond, Ewan G Kemp, Aaron Jamison |
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Rok vydání: | 2018 |
Předmět: |
Blepharoplasty
Male medicine.medical_specialty Time Factors Levator resection Tertiary referral centre Visual Acuity 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Ptosis Fascia lata medicine Blepharoptosis Humans Child Retrospective Studies business.industry Levator function Infant Retrospective cohort study Surgical correction eye diseases Surgery body regions Ophthalmology Treatment Outcome medicine.anatomical_structure Oculomotor Muscles Child Preschool 030221 ophthalmology & optometry Female medicine.symptom business Orthoptic 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Follow-Up Studies |
Zdroj: | International Ophthalmology. 39:1931-1938 |
ISSN: | 1573-2630 0165-5701 |
Popis: | To present our experience of paediatric blepharoptosis in a tertiary referral centre and evaluate the effectiveness of surgical intervention. A retrospective cohort study of all children receiving surgical blepharoptosis correction between 1/1/10 and 29/2/16. Children with pre-operative levator function (LF) ≥ 7 mm received levator resection, those with LF ≤ 4 mm received brow suspension, and in those children with LF of 5–6 mm, either levator resection or brow suspension was chosen depending on the degree of frontalis recruitment. Ninety-five children (109 eyes, 64 boys) underwent blepharoptosis surgery within the study period. Mean (range) age at surgery was 5.9 (1.2–12.5) years. Seventy-nine (83.2%) had simple levator maldevelopment. Fifteen children were excluded due to inadequate follow-up. Of the remaining 80 children, 41 (51.2%) underwent levator resection, 27 (33.8%) underwent fascia lata brow suspension, and twelve (15.0%) underwent mersilene mesh brow suspension. Margin reflex distance-1 was greatest at 6-week follow-up with a small “lid drop” by 6-month follow-up in both the levator resection (0.9 mm pre-operatively, 3.1 mm at 6-week follow-up, 2.6 mm at 6-month follow-up) and fascia lata brow suspension (0.3 mm, 2.5 mm, 2.2 mm) groups. No immediate complications, and only two serious post-operative complications, were noted. One case of residual blepharoptosis was re-operated (fascia lata brow suspension). Surgical correction of paediatric blepharoptosis is safe and, after an observed lid drop between 6-week and 6-month follow-up (not seen in the mersilene mesh brow suspension group), effect appears to be maintained to 6 months and beyond. Readily accessible orthoptic assessment would help identify children at risk of amblyopia, both pre-operatively and post-operatively. |
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