Existing data suggest that, at a minimum, 2% of paucibacillary patients and 5% of multibacillary patients have lagophthalmos; at least 290,000 people worldwide have leprosy-related lagophthalmos. Surgical intervention is the only method for correcting lagophthalmos; effectiveness of the different procedures commonly used has not been measured. Results from a survey of eye care providers revealed that surgeons in Asia used a wide range of different techniques for the correction of lagophthalmos while almost all of the surgeons in Africa used tarsorrhaphy. There is a need to evaluate surgical outcome of these techniques and to develop guidelines to assist in increasing the number of surgeries for lagophthalmos in leprosy patients.
BT - Leprosy review C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7500817?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1995 Sep DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.19950024 IS - 3 J2 - Lepr Rev LA - eng N2 -Existing data suggest that, at a minimum, 2% of paucibacillary patients and 5% of multibacillary patients have lagophthalmos; at least 290,000 people worldwide have leprosy-related lagophthalmos. Surgical intervention is the only method for correcting lagophthalmos; effectiveness of the different procedures commonly used has not been measured. Results from a survey of eye care providers revealed that surgeons in Asia used a wide range of different techniques for the correction of lagophthalmos while almost all of the surgeons in Africa used tarsorrhaphy. There is a need to evaluate surgical outcome of these techniques and to develop guidelines to assist in increasing the number of surgeries for lagophthalmos in leprosy patients.
PY - 1995 SP - 220 EP - 3 T2 - Leprosy review TI - Current concepts in the surgical management of lagophthalmos in leprosy. UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1995/v66n3/pdf/v66n3a05.pdf VL - 66 SN - 0305-7518 ER -