Prophylactic Antibiotics for Enucleation and Evisceration: A Retrospective Study and Systematic Literature Review.

Purpose: To report surgical site infection (SSI) rates of eviscerations and enucleations with implants performed without perioperative intravenous (IV) antibiotics or postoperative oral antibiotics, and to give SSI prevention recommendations.

Methods: A single-center retrospective chart review was performed after obtaining institutional review board approval. Charts were found by Current Procedural Terminology codes.

Use of hyaluronic acid gel in the treatment of lagophthalmos in sunken superior sulcus syndrome.

Purpose: To evaluate the use of hyaluronic acid gel in the management of lagophthalmos in sunken superior sulcus syndrome.

Introduction: Lagophthalmos associated with orbital fat atrophy and deep superior sulcus is a known entity described previously. Orbital fat atrophy results in deep superior sulcus where skin, orbicularis muscle, and orbital septum retract posteriorly in the deep superior sulcus, leading to lagophthalmos from suboptimal orbicularis function and effective skin shortening.

Myectomy for blepharospasm 2013.

Purpose Of Review: Botulinum toxin (BTX) injections are the main medical treatment of facial dystonias, but injections are ineffective in some patients. This review discusses the indications for myectomy and surgical technique for treating benign essential blepharospasm (BEB) and apraxia of eyelid opening (ALO).

Recent Findings: There are four reasons to consider myectomy for patients with BEB.

Lower eyelid and midface rejuvenation.

Lower eyelid blepharoplasty is one of the most common procedures in aesthetic plastic surgery. Although patients desiring lower eyelid blepharoplasty typically describe their problem as "bags in the lower eyelids," there are many anatomical imperfections that should be assessed. With aging, the youthful single convexity of the lower lid separates into a double convexity with a valley at the intersection of the lower lid and midface.

Beauveria keratitis and biopesticides: case histories and a random amplification of polymorphic DNA comparison.

Purpose: The purposes of this study were to describe 2 contact lens-associated Beauveria keratitis cases and to compare the isolates of 3 contact lens-associated Beauveria keratitis cases with Beauveria-based biopesticides using random amplification of polymorphic DNA (RAPD).

Methods: A 55-year-old diabetic woman from New Mexico and a 31-year-old healthy woman from southern Wisconsin developed soft contact lens-related corneal ulcers unresponsive to topical moxifloxacin and prednisolone acetate drops. Their corneal cultures grew B.

Unilateral Blastomyces dermatitidis optic neuropathy case report and systematic literature review.

Objective: To describe the clinical and histopathologic findings of a unique case of isolated optic nerve Blastomyces dermatitidis infection and to summarize the ophthalmic blastomycosis literature.

Design: Case report and systematic literature review.

Methods: A 70-year-old healthy man experienced impaired vision in his left eye.