An Analysis of Surgical Factors Associated With Clinically Significant Eyelid Edema (CSEE) in Patients Undergoing Blepharoplasty: Lid Crease Techniques Associated with CSEE.

Purpose: Severe postoperative edema after eyelid surgery can have negative clinical and psychological effects. In this study, the authors investigated whether surgical factors, including surgical techniques and suture type, were associated with clinically significant eyelid edema (CSEE).

Methods: A chart review was performed on 269 patients who underwent upper eyelid blepharoplasty with or without external levator advancement by 2 surgeons at a single institution between January 2021 and December 2022.

Demographic and physiological factors associated with clinically significant eyelid edema in patients following upper eyelid surgery.

Purpose: To investigate demographic and physiological variables associated with clinically significant edema after upper eyelid surgery.

Methods: A retrospective chart review was performed on patients who underwent blepharoplasty or external levator advancement with or without lid crease formation between January 2018 and January 2021 at the University of Southern California. Age, sex, pertinent medical history (medications causing edema and comorbidities), and pertinent surgical procedures were all collected.

Diagnosis and Management of Acute Thrombosis in Venous Dominant Orbital Venolymphatic Malformations.

Purpose: To report the characteristic clinical and imaging findings in a series of patients with thrombosed orbital venolymphatic malformations.

Methods: Patients affected by acute thrombosis of an orbital venolymphatic malformation were reviewed. Clinical findings including symptoms and signs of presentation, characteristic imaging features, and clinical course are presented.

Crowdsourcing Morphology Assessments in Oculoplastic Surgery: Reliability and Validity of Lay People Relative to Professional Image Analysts and Experts.

Purpose: To determine if crowdsourced ratings of oculoplastic surgical outcomes provide reliable information compared to professional graders and oculoplastic experts.

Methods: In this prospective psychometric evaluation, a scale for the rating of postoperative eyelid swelling was constructed using randomly selected images and topic experts. This scale was presented adjacent to 205 test images, including 10% duplicates.

Ptosis Sensitivity Threshold for the Lay Observer.

Purpose: This study aims to understand the degree to which ptosis is recognizable to a layperson.

Methods: Fifteen color drawings of a gender-neutral human face were created. Six faces exhibited right-sided ptosis (decreased margin reflex distance 1 and lengthened tarsal platform show) of 0.

Congenital Accessory Palpebral Fissure and Eyelid in a Newborn: A Case Report.

The occurrence of an accessory palpebral fissure and eyelid is an extremely rare phenomenon. An isolated accessory palpebral fissure and eyelid have been reported only twice in the literature, and in one case as an extension of Delleman syndrome, or oculocerebrocutaneous syndrome. The authors report a case of a full-term newborn who presented with an accessory palpebral fissure and eyelid associated with microcornea, skin polyps and tags, cutis dysplasia, and hypoplasia of the corpus callosum with an otherwise normal systemic workup and negative genetic screening.

Measurement of Medial Wall Bowing and Clinical Associations in Thyroid Eye Disease.

Purpose: To propose and validate a measure of medial wall bowing in thyroid eye disease (TED) and to assess the clinical correlates of bowing in TED.

Methods: In this cross-sectional cohort study, all patients affected with TED seen by a single specialist over a 2-year period were screened for study entry. Eligible participants were adults with clinical evidence of TED and either CT or MRI of the orbits.

Medial Buttressing in Orbital Blowout Fractures.

Purpose: To study whether ethmoidectomy predisposes the orbit to medial wall fracture with lesser trauma.

Methods: An interventional cadaver study of 5 heads (10 orbits); the left or right orbit was randomized to undergo endoscopic complete ethmoidectomy with the fellow orbit as control. Fractures were induced with direct globe trauma, and heads underwent CT scanning.

Outcomes of Pars Plana Vitrectomy for Patients With Vitreomacular Traction.

Background And Objective: To evaluate clinical and optical coherence tomography (OCT) outcomes of pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for patients with vitreomacular traction (VMT).

Patients And Methods: Noncomparative, interventional, consecutive case series from 2007 to 2014.

Results: Of the 37 study eyes, patients were grouped according to the extent of VMT evident on OCT.

Determinants of survival and resource utilization for pediatric extracorporeal membrane oxygenation in the United States 1997-2009.

Background: Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) remains a vital therapy for children requiring cardiopulmonary support.

Methods: The Kids' Inpatient Database (KID) was analyzed for ECMO (ICD-9-CM 39.65) patients between 1997 and 2009.

Longitudinal relationships between visual acuity and severe depressive symptoms in older adults: the Salisbury Eye Evaluation study.

Objectives: To assess the longitudinal relationship between visual acuity (VA) and depressive symptoms (DSs) among older adults.

Methods: A population-based sample of 2520 white and black individuals aged 65-84 years in 1993--1995 was assessed at baseline and at two, six, and eight years later. Presenting and best-corrected VA was assessed using early treatment diabetic retinopathy study chart.

Glaucoma screening in the Haitian Afro-Caribbean population of South Florida.

Objective: To evaluate the presence of clinical signs consistent with suspected glaucoma in Haitian Afro-Caribbean individuals residing in South Florida who do not receive regular eye examinations.

Design: Retrospective, cross-sectional study.

Setting: Community health center in the Little Haiti district of Miami, Florida.

Spontaneous massive splenic infarction in the setting of renal transplant and septic shock: a case report and review of the literature.

Massive splenic infarction (MSI) is a rare phenomenon that results from compromised blood flow to more than half of the spleen. Causes of MSI include hematological disorders, coagulopathies, infection, and embolization, and, rarely, MSI is spontaneous. The mainstay of treatment is splenectomy.

Visual acuity and increased mortality: the role of allostatic load and functional status.

Purpose: Poor vision may detrimentally impact functional status and affect allostatic load (AL), a measure of cumulative physiological wear and tear on the body's regulatory systems. We examined the direct effects of visual acuity (VA) on mortality and its indirect effect on mortality through its impact on functional status and AL in older adults.

Methods: Data from 4981 participants (age ≥ 60 years) from the 1999-2004 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) with mortality linkage through 2006 were analyzed.