Title | Long term outcomes of upper eyelid loading with modular platinum segment chains for lagophthalmos |
Submitted by | Katja Ullrich |
Abstract Number | 305 |
19-128 | |
Review Result | poster presentation |
Purpose | To report a 5-year series with longer term outcomes of individually sutured platinum segment chains for upper eyelid loading in a single referral centre. |
Methods | Single-centre, prospective audit. Segments of 0.4g and 0.2g were assembled to create a desired weight and placed in supratarsal location after levator aponeurosis recession. |
Results | Between July 2013-2018, a total of 195 upper eyelids underwent loading. Of them 122 eyelids (63%) of 117 patients received platinum segment chains (mean weight 1.2±0.2 g ranging 0.8–1.6 g) for lagophthalmos and were included in the study. |
Conclusion | Platinum segments are FDA approved and provide benefits of platinum chains with the additional advantages of allowing postoperative adjustability, being thinner, inducing less visible prominence and with less likelihood of allergy than gold. They are an ideal first-line loading implant for lagophthalmos. |
Additional Authors
Last name | Initials | City / Hospital | Department |
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Artsi | EB | Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Corneoplastics Unit |
Malhotra | R | Queen Victoria Hospital NHS Foundation Trust | Corneoplastics Unit |