| Clinical Evaluation of Epiblepharon and Congenital Entropion. |
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So Youl Kim, In Ah Moon, Young Koo Kang, Seok Woo Yang |
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Department of Ophthalmology, St. Pauls Hospital, Catholic University Medical College. |
| 덧눈꺼풀 및 선청성 안검내반 환아의 임상양상 |
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김소열(So Youl Kim),문인아(In Ah Moon),강영구(Young Koo Kang),양석우(Seok Woo Yang) |
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| Abstract |
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We retrospectively reviewed the sex distribution, age at oepration, chief complaints, peroperative and postoperative refractive errors, and corrected visual acuity in 160 previously operated patients to evaluate the clinical manifestations, reractive error, frequency of amblyopia, age at operation, and the postoperative factors affected by the operation of epiblepharon and congenital entropion itself that influence visual acuity and refractive error. The average age at operation was 7.9 years. The chief complaint was ocular discomfort, followed by visual disturbance, photophobia, eyelid rubbing and epiphora. One hundred thirty-three wyws(41.6%) whose preoperative corrected visual acuity was below 0.6 had a mean visual acuity of 0.7. Ninety-five eyes (29.7%) were preoperative myopes above -1.0D, 77 eyes(24%) were hyperopes above +1.0D, and 163 eyes were astigmatic above -1.0D. Twenty-two out of 76 eyes who were followed up for more than one year had a corrected visual acuity of below 0.6. The difference between the older and less than 7 years groups was significantly not significant. Astigmatic changes were not statistically different at any age group. However, the mean significantly visual acuity at postoperative one year was 0.73, which was significantly different from the preoperative value(P=0.006). In conclusion, concurrent postoperative glasses correction and amblyyopia therapy is indicated because the incidence of refractive errors and amblyopia is higher in epiblepharon and congenital entropion. |
| Key Words:
Amblyopia;Congenital entropion;Epiblepharon;Refractive errors |
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