TY - JOUR KW - Adult KW - Corneal Diseases KW - Eye Protective Devices KW - Eyelid Diseases KW - Female KW - Humans KW - Hypesthesia KW - leprosy KW - Male KW - Methylcellulose KW - Ophthalmic Solutions AU - Karaçorlu M A AU - Cakiner T AU - Sürel Z AU - Ersoy N AU - Saylan T AU - Sutlas M AB -

Lagophthalmos and corneal hypaesthesia are amongst the most frequently encountered lesions in leprosy and they can easily give rise to blindness. Many measures (such as eye drops, protective conoid shields, muscle exercises, surgical treatment etc.) have been used to protect the eyes under such circumstances and this paper examines the protective role of methyl cellulose and conoid shields in 41 patients. All of them had lagophthalmos (5 mm or more) and corneal hypaesthesia. They were divided into three groups. Group one had 15 leprosy control patients (27 eyes) who did not use methyl cellulose or eye shields. Group two had 16 leprosy patients (28 eyes) and they used methyl cellulose and eye shields when they felt discomfort in their eyes. Group three had 10 leprosy patients (17 eyes) and they used methyl cellulose and eye shields regularly. Statistically significant improvement was seen in group three. Further studies on larger groups of patients including the effects of different concentrations of methyl cellulose, on Schirmer test and tear break up time, may be of value.

BT - Leprosy review C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1870383?dopt=Abstract CN - Infolep Library - available DA - 1991 Jun DO - 10.5935/0305-7518.19910024 IS - 2 J2 - Lepr Rev LA - eng N2 -

Lagophthalmos and corneal hypaesthesia are amongst the most frequently encountered lesions in leprosy and they can easily give rise to blindness. Many measures (such as eye drops, protective conoid shields, muscle exercises, surgical treatment etc.) have been used to protect the eyes under such circumstances and this paper examines the protective role of methyl cellulose and conoid shields in 41 patients. All of them had lagophthalmos (5 mm or more) and corneal hypaesthesia. They were divided into three groups. Group one had 15 leprosy control patients (27 eyes) who did not use methyl cellulose or eye shields. Group two had 16 leprosy patients (28 eyes) and they used methyl cellulose and eye shields when they felt discomfort in their eyes. Group three had 10 leprosy patients (17 eyes) and they used methyl cellulose and eye shields regularly. Statistically significant improvement was seen in group three. Further studies on larger groups of patients including the effects of different concentrations of methyl cellulose, on Schirmer test and tear break up time, may be of value.

PY - 1991 SP - 201 EP - 5 T2 - Leprosy review TI - The protective effects of methyl cellulose and conoid shields for lagophthalmos and corneal hypaesthesia in leprosy. UR - http://leprev.ilsl.br/pdfs/1991/v62n2/pdf/v62n2a12.pdf VL - 62 SN - 0305-7518 ER -