Purpose: To compare the results of lacrimal syringing performed in clinical practice and under general anesthesia, efficacy anesthesia before endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy dacryoscintigraphy.Methods: The study included 148 eyes 82 patients who underwent silicone tube intubation from August 2018 to April 2019. were examined with re‐examined anesthesia. Based on change syringing, assigned inco...

AIMS To determine whether acute dacryocystitis complicated by abscess formation can be successfully treated using laser assisted endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy. METHODS A protocol was adopted for the management of acute dacryocystitis presenting to an ophthalmology department. All patients were assessed jointly by an ophthalmologist and otolaryngologist for their suitability for primary inte...

Institutional review board approval of the LV Prasad Eye Institute was obtained. Intrasaccal lacrimal sac granulomas are uncommon and are usually seen secondary to chronic inflammation. A 55-year-old woman presented with leftsided epiphora associated with discharge of 5 years. Irrigation and probing were suggestive of a nasolacrimal duct obstruction, and the patient underwent a powered endoscop...

OBJECTIVES To determine the outcome and complications of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy without stenting at Ziauddin University Hospital, Keamari, Karachi, Pakistan. METHODOLOGY Fifty Patients who underwent endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy from August 2011 to July 2012 at Department of Ophthalmology, Ziauddin University Hospital, Keamari, Karachi were included.Data regarding the Outcomes an...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to explore the effect of age on the success of transcanalicular diode laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy (TCDCR). METHODS Seventy patients (70 eyes) who underwent transcanalicular diode laser-assisted dacryocystorhinostomy for the treatment of nasolacrimal duct obstruction as a primary surgery were included in this retrospective, nonrandomized study. The pa...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the surgical outcomes of endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy followed by canalicular trephination and silicone stenting in patients with distal or common canalicular obstructions. METHODS The medical records of 29 patients (31 eyes) from January 2001 to December 2009 who underwent endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy followed by canalicular trephination and silicone tube inser...