Evaluation of patient comfort with outpatient orbital surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate patient comfort with outpatient orbital surgery.

Design: Prospective, non-randomized study.

Methods: The experience of 34 consecutive outpatient orbital procedures in 30 patients was evaluated.

Treatment of trichiasis and distichiasis by eyelash trephination.

Purpose: To describe the methods and results of a new technique of eyelash trephination for treatment of trichiasis and distichiasis.

Methods: The medical records of all patients who underwent eyelash trephination by the authors to treat trichiasis or distichiasis were reviewed. Gender, diagnosis, number of eyelids treated, follow-up time, and surgical outcome were recorded.

Autologous allogeneic amniotic membrane grafting in Stevens-Johnson syndrome.

We describe the use of autologous allogeneic amniotic membrane in ocular surface reconstruction. A 28-year-old woman with cicatricial entropion from Stevens-Johnson syndrome had recurrent keratinization of the tarsal conjunctiva. Amniotic membrane from the patient's own conceptus was stored and successfully used in ocular surface reconstruction with improvement of ocular symptoms.

Prosthetic motility in pegged versus unpegged integrated porous orbital implants.

Purpose: To objectively measure and compare prosthetic motility in pegged versus unpegged orbital implants and to determine subjective patient assessment of motility after the pegging procedure.

Methods: A prospective case series of 10 patients with integrated porous orbital implants, who had secondary motility peg placement procedure, were studied. Infrared oculography was used to quantitatively assess pegged and unpegged prosthetic eye motility in horizontal and vertical excursions.