Publications by authors named "Tiina Leivo"
Purpose: The aim of this study is to evaluate the effect of blepharoplasty, ptosis or eyebrow surgery to quality of life and use of medication related to headache or eyelid skin disease.
Methods: A longitudinal, prospective study including 90 consecutive patients who underwent blepharoplasty, ptosis, eyebrow or combined surgery. The quality of life related to headache was evaluated by HIT6™ and to eyelid skin disease by Skindex-Mini SDM.
Purpose: To compare the long-term symptom resolution and use of resources of performing endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (enDCR) in acute or delayed phase in patients with acute dacryocystitis (AD).
Methods: This prospective, randomised controlled trial was conducted in Helsinki University tertiary Eye and Ear, Nose and Throat (ENT) Hospitals between September 2013 and January 2019. Fifty patients aged 18 and above presenting with AD in the emergency care were randomised into acute and delayed enDCR surgery groups, performed in 1 week or 4 months from the diagnosis of AD.
Introduction: Eye injuries can cause decreased vision or even blindness, and predispose to future complications. Wood as an independent cause of eye injuries has infrequently been the focus of the studies. The aim of this study is to report the current population-based epidemiology, treatment, use of resources and outcomes of eye injuries caused by sticks, branches, and other wooden projectiles in Finland.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFResource use and economic burden of eye injuries in Southern Finland.
Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol
February 2022
Objective: To estimate resource use and the costs of eye injuries in 2011-2012 in the Helsinki University Eye Hospital (HUEH), which covers 1.6 million people in Southern Finland.
Methods: This population-based study consisted of all new patients (1,151) with eye injuries in one year.
Background: The purpose was to describe the Nordic treatment practices and to reach a Nordic consensus for the treatment of sebaceous eyelid carcinoma.
Methods: The treatment practices data was collected by a questionnaire with 37 questions to the Nordic oculoplastic surgeons and analyzed. A PubMed MEDLINE database search was done to gather data on the published treatment practices and recommendations.
Purpose: To quantify and characterize the epidemiology, treatments, long-term outcome, and use of resources for work tool-related eye injuries and their severity.
Methods: We included all new patients with a work tool-related eye injury treated at the Helsinki University Eye Hospital in 1 year. The data were from hospital records, examinations, and patient questionnaires.
Purpose: We report the epidemiology, findings, treatment, long-term outcome and use of resources for eye injuries caused by toy guns in southern Finland.
Methods: All new patients injured by toy guns in one year (2011-2012) and treated at Helsinki University Eye Hospital were included. Follow-ups occurred at 3 months and 5 years.
Purpose: To describe epidemiology, causes, treatments and outcomes of all ocular injuries in southern Finland among people aged 61 and older.
Methods: All new ocular trauma patients, admitted to the Helsinki University Eye Hospital, during 1 year in 2011-2012. The data were from hospital records and prospectively from patient questionnaires.
Objective: We studied the correlation between airbag deployment and eye injuries using 2 different data sets.
Methods: The registry of the Finnish Road Accident (FRA) Investigation Teams was analyzed to study severe head- and eyewear-related injuries. All fatal passenger car or van accidents that occurred during the years 2009-2012 (4 years) were included (n = 734).
Purpose: To determine the current population-based epidemiology, treatment, use of resources and outcomes of children's eye injuries in Finland.
Methods: The study included all new patients, 16 years of age or under, with ocular or orbital traumas taken into care to the Helsinki University Eye Hospital (population base 1.5 million people) in 1 year.
Purpose: To describe epidemiology, causes, treatments and outcomes of ocular injuries in adults aged 17 to 60 in southern Finland.
Methods: All new ocular trauma patients admitted to the Helsinki University Eye Hospital (HUEH), during 1 year in 2011-2012. The data were from hospital records and prospectively from patient questionnaires.
IgG4-related disease is a recently defined inflammatory process characterized by IgG4-bearing plasma cells in the involved tissues. The most common sites of involvement are the pancreas, hepatobiliary tract, salivary glands, lymph nodes, retroperitoneum and orbit, especially the lacrimal glands. Other ocular or ocular adnexal sites are rare.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: This study aims to represent the epidemiologies, findings, treatments, use of resources, outcomes and protective-eyewear-use recommendations in sports-related eye injuries by sport type.
Methods: The study population is comprised of all new eye injury patients in 1 year in Helsinki University Eye Hospital. Data were collected from patient questionnaires and hospital records.
Purpose: To present an economic-analysis comparison of simultaneous and sequential bilateral cataract surgery.
Setting: Helsinki University Eye Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Design: Economic analysis.
Purpose: To evaluate the refractive outcomes, complication rates, and changes in patients' functional state and satisfaction with simultaneous compared with sequential bilateral cataract surgery.
Setting: Helsinki University Eye Hospital, Helsinki, Finland.
Design: Clinical trial.
Background: If decisions on health care spending are to be as rational and objective as possible, knowledge on cost-effectiveness of routine care is essential. Our aim, therefore, was to evaluate the cost-utility of routine cataract surgery in a real-world setting.
Methods: Prospective assessment of health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of patients undergoing cataract surgery.