A PubMed Citations Search Study on the Prevalence of Epiphora in the General Adult Population.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of epiphora in the general adult population based on PubMed search citations.

Methods: 1) Electronic PubMed MEDLINE database search (September 13, 2019) with the terms (Medical Subject Headings or MeSH) "prevalence" and "epiphora", 2) "epiphora" and "dry eye", and 3) "prevalence", "epiphora", and "dry eye". Review of all citations from these searches containing the term "epiphora" either in their abstract or title.

Temporary Medial Upper Eyelid Lagophthalmos after External Dacryocystorhinostomy.

Background. Report of three cases of medial upper eyelid lagophthalmos as complication of external dacryocystorhinostomy. History and Signs.

Treatment of epiphora in connection with endolacrimal surgery using trephines: new and overview data.

Background: To provide new and to summarize published data on endolacrimal surgery with Piffaretti's trephines, in particular in patients having patent lacrimal drainage system (syringing) and epiphora resistant to medical treatments.

Patients And Methods: From two tertiary referral centers (Basel/Switzerland; Belo Horizonte/Brazil), 126 patients undergoing endolacrimal surgery with Piffaretti's trephines, combined, when clinically indicated, with other procedures known to improve epiphora (canthoplasty/pexie and/or conjunctivochalasisplasty).

Results: I) A study (Basel) in 17 patients showed one-year after surgery marked epiphora symptoms' improvement in 88% (15/17) of patients, 65% (11/17) being symptom-free.

Delayed reconstruction after eyelid tumor excision.

Background: The aim of this study is to report the feasibility of one to two weeks delayed reconstruction after eyelid tumor excision.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective case-series study was designed. Fourteen consecutive outpatients referred to a tertiary referral eye center for eyelid tumor management were enrolled.

Mucosal excision instead of fashioning nasolacrimal mucosae flaps during external dacryocystorhinostomy: a pilot study.

Background: To report results of a simplified external dacryocytorhinostomy procedure in which nasal and lacrimal sac mucosal flaps are simply removed instead of being sutured together.

Design: Retrospective non-comparative case-series study.

Participants: Fourteen consecutive outpatients patients undergoing external dacryocytorhinostomy.

Continuous IOP fluctuation recording in normal tension glaucoma patients.

Background: Intraocular pressure (IOP) remains the only treatable risk factor of progressive glaucoma. Recently a device became available to continuously record IOP fluctuation in contrast to classical, discreet IOP measurements.

Objectives: To perform 24-h IOP fluctuation monitoring using a CE-marked silicone lens-embedded strain gauge sensor (SENSIMED Triggerfish) in five normal tension glaucoma patients in the presence and absence of anti-glaucomatous treatment and to show the clinical importance of this diagnostic tool.

Improvement of chronic epiphora symptoms after surgery in patients with different preoperative schirmer-test values.

Background: To compare improvement of epiphora symptoms after surgery between patients who had different preoperative basal Schirmer test values.

Design: Retrospective comparative case-series study.

Participants: Twenty-two consecutive patients (one eye/patient) undergoing surgery for chronic epiphora symptoms resistant to ≥ 6 months of medical treatments (who incidentally had a preoperative basal [oxybuprocain-HCL 0.

New minimally invasive, deep sclerotomy ab interno surgical procedure for glaucoma, six years of follow-up.

Purpose: The goal of this study is to show the efficacy and safety of an innovative surgical procedure regarding the treatment of open-angle and juvenile glaucoma known as sclerothalamotomy ab interno (STT ab interno).

Patients And Methods: Between February and July 2002 surgery was performed in 58 eyes of 58 consecutive patients, of which 53 were diagnosed with open-angle and 5 with juvenile glaucoma. The procedure was performed with the assistance of a custom-made high-frequency dissection probe (19 gauge with a tip of 0.

Pathophysiology of intraocular pressure increase and glaucoma prevalence in thyroid eye disease: a mini-review.

Background: The aim of this study was to assess the pathophysiological mechanisms leading to intraocular pressure (IOP) increase and to review the prevalence of glaucoma in thyroid eye disease (TED), an autoimmune reaction affecting extra-ocular muscles and intra-orbital content in thyrotoxicosis (Grave's disease, hyperthyroidism).

Material And Methods: We applied the modified Friedenswald's and Goldmann's equations to explain the mechanisms by which IOP increases in TED and gave a brief review of the literature.

Results: In TED, Friedenswald's equation explains the ultra-short term IOP increase observed when eyes deviate from their primary gaze position (eyeball compression by enlarged and infiltrated extra-ocular muscles).

Large upper eyelid full-thickness defects reconstructed only with an anterior lamella.

Background: The purpose of this study is to report a surgical procedure that only uses anterior lamella structures (muscle and skin) to reconstruct large upper eyelid full-thickness total defects.

Patients And Methods: The study design is a non-comparative retrospective interventional small case series. Three patients with upper eyelid full-thickness (anterior and posterior lamellae) total-defect (horizontal extent: > 3/4 length, vertical extent: > 15 mm) after tumor excision (basal cell, squamous cell, or Merkel's cell carcinoma).

Improved reproducibility of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness measurements with the repeat-scan protocol using the Stratus OCT in normal and glaucomatous eyes.

Background: Optical coherence tomography has become within the last years an established imaging technique with many applications in ophthalmology, and an important tool which contributes to earlier and more accurate diagnosis of glaucoma. As a consequence, detection sensitivity is highly valued. The aim of this study was to assess the reproducibility of peripapillary retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness measurements by the Stratus Optical Coherence Tomograph (OCT) using the Fast- and Repeat-scan protocols in normal and glaucomatous eyes.

Unexpected bleeding following eyelid tumor resection leading to the rare diagnosis of acquired haemophilia.

Background: Our goal is to report for the first time in the literature a case of uncontrolled bleeding after an oculoplastic surgical procedure leading to the diagnosis of acquired haemophilia.

History And Signs: An 82-year-old patient underwent tumor excision and reconstruction of his right lower eyelid. On the same day, uncontrolled bleeding occurred that resisted optimal blood pressure control, external compression, surgical haemostasis and wound revision.

Eyelid sebaceous gland carcinoma in a young Caucasian man.

Background: Eyelid sebaceous gland carcinoma is rarely observed in young Caucasian men.

History And Signs: A 28-year-old man was referred for a recurring chalazion of the eyelid that had been operated four times in the past two years. The chalazion-like lesion of the external third of the upper left eyelid was associated with a cystic lesion.

Repeatability of intraocular pressure and corneal biomechanical properties measurements by the ocular response analyser.

Background: The Ocular Response Analyser (ORA, Reichert Ophthalmic Instruments) is a non-contact applanation tonometer, providing two measures of intraocular pressure (IOP) - IOPg which represents a Goldmann equivalent IOP measure and IOPcc, representing a measure of IOP independent of corneal effects. In addition, the device provides two measures believed to represent corneal biomechanical properties: corneal hysteresis (CH) and corneal resistance factor (CRF). The aim of this study was to assess the repeatability of these measurements.

Feasibility of not having a postoperative control at day-1 after outpatient oculoplastic surgical procedures.

Background: After outpatient oculoplastic surgical procedures, to report the feasibility of a policy of planning the first post-operative control not at one day after surgery but at the time of suture removal or lacrimal drainage system irrigation.

Patients And Methods: A retrospective case-series chart review analysis in a tertiary referral center of hundred and five consecutive outpatients was performed. Surgical procedures: eyelid (75/105), transpunctal endoscopic lacrimal drainage (11/105), both eyelid and transpunctal endoscopic lacrimal drainage (15/105), orbita soft tissue (4/105).

Quality of diurnal intraocular pressure control in primary open-angle patients treated with latanoprost compared with surgically treated glaucoma patients: a prospective trial.

Purpose: To compare the intraocular pressure (IOP) diurnal fluctuations of glaucoma patients treated with latanoprost 0.005% once a day with patients with controlled IOP after deep sclerectomy or trabeculectomy.

Methods: The trial included 60 prospectively recruited subjects with primary open-angle glaucoma.

Superficial conjunctiva cauterization to reduce moderate conjunctivochalasis.

Aim: We report here a simple surgical approach to reduce moderate conjunctivochalasis.

Patients And Methods: A non-comparative prospective interventional case series study of fifteen consecutive patients with moderate conjunctivochalasis was carried out. On the inferior bulbar conjunctiva 10 to 20 superficial burns were performed with an electrical bipolar cauter to reduce moderate conjunctivochalasis.

A surgical approach to treat chronic epiphora and/or muculopurulent discharge in patients with permeable lacrimal drainage system.

Background: This study reports the one-year success rate of a new surgical approach to treat symptoms of chronic epiphora and/or mucopurulent discharge refractive to at least six months of medical treatment in patients with permeable lacrimal drainage system (irrigation test).

Design: retrospective chart review analysis.

Participants: seventeen consecutive patients referred from a private praxis to an eye clinic to treat, by surgery, symptoms of either chronic epiphora (8/17), mucopurulent discharge (7/17), or both (2/17).

Inhibition by brimonidine of forskolin-induced nitric oxide synthase expression in human ciliary bodies in vitro.

Purpose: To investigate the mRNA and protein expression of nitric oxide synthase (NOS) in human ciliary bodies in vitro. The effect of the adenylcyclase activator forskolin and/or the alpha2-adrenergic agonist brimonidine (an ocular hypotensive agent that inhibits aqueous humor formation) on NOS mRNA or protein expression was also studied.

Methods: Frozen human ciliary bodies obtained from local eye bank were thawed and incubated with 0.

Renal sodium handling in patients with normal pressure glaucoma.

Low BP (blood pressure) is a recognized risk factor for some patients with NPG (normal pressure glaucoma). We have shown previously that patients with orthostasis have impaired circadian renal handling of sodium, which may contribute to the low BP. Therefore the aim of the present study was to examine the renal handling of sodium, the circadian variations in BP and the neurohormonal response to an orthostatic test in a selected subpopulation of 18 patients with NPG with vasospastic and orthostatic symptoms, and in 24 healthy control subjects.