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Aspirin and upper lid surgery
This is a double-blind randomised controlled trial of preoperative aspirin versus placebo in patients undergoing upper lid blepharoplasty or ptosis surgery. All enrolled patients were already taking aspirin and no other anti-platelet or anticoagulant drugs. All patients either had no...Dog bite lid lacerations
1 October 2016
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The characteristics of dog bite induced lid trauma are described in a large cohort of paediatric patients and the success rate of early repair of lacerations involving the lacrimal system. This is a retrospective review of 438 patients: 73 with...
Sliding lower lid tarsal flap
This is a retrospective review of a lower lid reconstructive technique utilising a sliding tarsal flap. Thirty-two patients who had undergone Mohs surgery were included and each had a shallow marginal defect with at least one remaining tarsal edge having...Hughes flap for lower lid retraction
This is a retrospective case series looking at the use of Hughes flap for cicatricial lower lid retraction. Fourteen patients were identified across five different hospitals with varying aetiologies ranging from previous lid lesion excision and reconstruction to trauma. The...AlloDerm for correction of lower lid retraction
1 August 2017
| James Hsuan
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Ocular Pathology and 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...
How to reconstruct an upper lid defect
1 June 2022
| Hetvi Bhatt
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
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Eyelid tumor, surgical techniques, tarsoconjunctival upper eyelid flap, upper eyelid graft, upper eyelid reconstruction
In this 10-year review, the authors look at published techniques for repairing upper lid defects and their respective success. Of the 10 studies included in this paper, they divide the techniques described within to bridging and non-bridging. Bridging techniques tend...
Bleb-related changes in upper lid position
This is a review of five patients with upper lid ptosis or lid retraction secondary to large filtering blebs post-trabeculectomy. The authors review each case and apply a model to analyse the separate forces acting on the upper lid to...Case reports of ‘ictal lid saccades’ and ‘ictal blinks’
The authors present two cases of lid movements with discrete physiology and propose the terms ‘ictal lid saccades’ and ‘ictal blink’ to describe the movements seen. These two types of lid movement, blinks and saccades, have discrete kinematic properties and...Myopathic ptosis and lower lid retraction surgery
This is a description of a surgical technique which simultaneously addresses both the upper lid ptosis and lower lid retraction in patients with moderate to severe myopathic ptosis. The procedure was performed on 16 eyes of nine patients and involved...Effect of postoperative swelling on lid surgery outcomes
1 October 2021
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Oculoplastics, Orbit
This is a review of patients undergoing upper lid external levator resection ptosis surgery or blepharoplasty, to assess whether the degree of early postoperative swelling affects the final lid position. Twenty-five patients undergoing ptosis surgery and 29 upper lid blepharoplasty...
Placement of an eyelid weight as an upper lid spacer for lagophthalmos
1 February 2016
| Anjali Gupta
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
Upper lid loading with a weight is a well described procedure for the treatment of lagophthalmos and exposure keratopathy. The authors describe a modification of this procedure whereby the levator aponeurosis is recessed in combination with supratarsal weight implantation. The...