Operations for Entropion and Trachiasis

Postoperative care in trachiasis surgery

Postoperative care is an important aspect of trachomatous trichiasis (TT) surgical services. Follow-up visits should ideally take place on the first postoperative day (to remove the eye patch), after 8–14 days (to remove sutures; optional if absorbable sutures are used), at 3 months (to re-examine the operated lid for intermediate surgical outcomes), and then at or after six months. An eye patc...

The Wedge Operation for Entropion and Trichiasis

Single-stitch operation for senile entropion.

Butler (I 948) described a simple operation for entropion; a triangular piece of tarsal plate and conjunctiva, base down and apex almost at the lid margin, was removed with blunttipped scissors "to avoid damage to the muscle fibers" (of orbicularis oculi). Kwitko (i 964) described a very similar procedure. The operation reported here has been in use at the Sussex Eye Hospital, Brighton, for som...

Entropion in Hong Kong.

TRACHOMA persists as a major scourge in the causation of blindness in the Far East. Of its many complications and sequelae, entropion is undoubtedly the commonest. Apart from the cataract operation, which restores sight, an entropion operation is perhaps the most gratifying in the field of ophthalmology. The following is a report on 1,252 cases of entropion seen in the Ophthalmic Department, Ko...

Interventions for involutional lower lid entropion.

BACKGROUND Entropion is a condition in which the eyelid margin turns in against the eyeball. The involutional or senile type of entropion is one of the most common lower lid malpositions in the elderly. The interventions described and currently used for the treatment of this condition are surgical in nature, although non-surgical temporary medical treatment for the early stages of entropion has...