J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  2002 Sep;43(9):1559-1569.

Medpor(r) Enophthalmos Wedge Implants in Enophthalmos Correction

Affiliations
  • 1Department of Ophthalmology, Kangdong Sacred Heart Hospital, School of Medicine, Hallym University, Seoul, Korea.
  • 2Department of Ophthalmology, Samsung Medical Center, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea. ydkim@smc.samsung.co.kr

Abstract

PURPOSE: We assessed the effect of Medpor(r) enophthalmos wedge implant on the correction enophthalmos.
METHODS
Authors operated on 12 patients with enophthalmos using Medpor(r) enophthalmos wedge implant.
RESULTS
Among 12 cases, 5 were men and 7 were women. Average age was 37.2 years. Average followup period was 8.1 months. There were posttraumatic enophthalmos in 8 patients and anophthalmic enophthalmos in 4 patients. We used 27 implants to correct enophthalmos (mean 2.3 implants). Among 8 orbital fracture cases, ocular motility disturbance and diplopia were improved in 7 cases. The amount of enophthalmos corrected was between 1 and 5 mm (mean 3.1 mm). We experienced improvement of inferior dystopia (mean 2.1 mm) in 11 cases and medial dystopia (mean 0.8 mm) in 5 cases. There was no case of visual loss, implant infection, migration, or exposure.
CONCLUSIONS
Our results showed that Medpor(r) enophthalmos wedge implant effectively corrected enophthalmos without significant complications.

Keyword

Anophthalmos; Enophthalmos; Medpor(r) enophthalmos wedge implant; Orbital fractures

MeSH Terms

Anophthalmos
Diplopia
Enophthalmos*
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Orbital Fractures
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