Surgical outcomes of isolated medial rectus palsy
7 April 2021
| Ivan Yip
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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exotropia, imaging feature, isolated medial rectus palsy, orbit, strabismus surgery
Isolated medial rectus is a rare clinical entity. This prospective study of 32 patients from China showed that this was caused most commonly by iatrogenic injury (43.75%), trauma (37.50%) and congenital (18.75%) causes. An average of 60 ±25 prism dioptres...
Ocular adnexal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma
5 August 2020
| Jonathan Chan
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EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
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conjunctiva, epidemiology, eye lids, neoplasia, orbit
This is a multicentre retrospective study of seven eye centres of 689 patients with ocular adnexal extranodal marginal zone b-cell lymphoma (OA-EMZL). The median follow-up time was 42 months and the median age was 62 years. Fifty-five percent were women;...
Recession and resection surgery in TED
5 June 2020
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Graves’ orbitopathy, Thyroid eye disease, ocular ductions, recession, squint surgery
The aim was to investigate changes in ocular ductions in thyroid eye disease (TED) patients undergoing recession in comparison to recession / resection surgery. This was a retrospective study of 119 patients with inclusion of 102 eyes in final analysis....
Use of bovine pericardium for tendon elongation
1 August 2019
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Decompression, Graves’ orbitopathy, dose-effect, eye muscle surgery, tendon elongation of medial rectus muscle
A retrospective analysis was conducted on all patients treated in one centre with tendon elongation using bovine pericardium (BP) to examine outcomes and long-term safety. The study included 60 patients; 27 unilateral and 33 bilateral cases. Follow-up of one to...
Is exenteration helpful in invasive fungal sinusitis?
1 February 2019
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Invasive fungal sinusitis, orbital exenteration, posterior ischaemic optic neuropathy
Invasive fungal sinusitis is a potentially lethal disease that causes painful orbital apex syndrome with ophthalmoplegia and visual loss. The mechanism of ophthalmoplegia and visual loss is not clear, and neither is the role of radical surgery-orbital exenteration. The authors...
Bioengineered human tissue
1 August 2017
| James Hsuan
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EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
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ocular, oculoplastic, reconstructive, bioengineering, reconstruction, oculoplastics, orbit
This is a literature review of the current status of tissue engineering related to ocular and oculoplastic reconstructive surgery. The authors describe the process of bioengineering for tissue reconstruction. The aim is to reproduce functional tissue by the use of...
AlloDerm for correction of lower lid retraction
1 August 2017
| James Hsuan
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EYE - Pathology, EYE - Oncology
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Graves’ orbitopathy, orbital decompression, acellular human dermis, Oculoplastics, orbit
This is a retrospective review of 95 eyes of 54 patients undergoing orbital decompression for Graves’ orbitopathy. All patients had a swinging eyelid approach across the whole of the lower lid. Thirty-six eyes also had insertion of a 0.3mm thick...
Bisphosphonates can cause orbital inflammation
1 April 2016
| Claire Howard
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EYE - Neuro-ophthalmology
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Bisphosphonate, complication, orbital inflammation, orbital inflammatory syndrome, side effect, zolendronate
The authors describe four patients with bisphosphonate induced orbital inflammation and review a further 25 cases in the literature. Intravenous zoledronate was the most common precipitant (76% of cases) with the mean time until onset of inflammation being three days...
Medial rectus recession in Grave’s orbitopathy
1 August 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Adult strabismus, diplopia, operation dosage, orbit, thyriod eye disease
The purpose of this retrospective study was to analyse the surgical effect / success rate of recession of the medial rectus in 90 patients with horizontal diplopia. Mean age was 52.5 ±9.4 years. Of that 24% had unilateral medial rectus...
