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Complications from Infective Corneal Conditions Treated by Tarsorrhaphy


M Adu-Darko

Abstract

Background: Complications from infective corneal conditions are an important cause of blindness in adults and children. The eyelids play a major role in the pathogenesis of staphyloma and the perforation of descemetoceles. Tarsorrhaphy could, therefore, be beneficial in treating serious complications from infective corneal conditions.


Method: The case records of 46 patients (47 eyes) who were treated by tarsorrhaphy were analyzed in terms of demography, bacteriological studies and pre- and post-surgical intervention visual acuity.


Result: The best pre-surgical intervention vision ‘hand movement' improved to 6/60 or better while the worst result was cosmetically amenable phthisis bulbi.


Conclusion: Tarsorrhaphy restored some useful vision in otherwise hopeless cases of infective corneal conditions.


[Nig. J. Ophthalmology Vol.11(1) 2003: 42-44]

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