Características de la apertura palpebral en la regeneración aberrante del tercer nervio craneal: análisis de la población atendida en el servicio de oftalmología del Hospital Vall d’Hebron

Estudi retrospectiu que analitza les característiques de l’apertura palpebral en 22 pacients amb regeneració aberrant secundària a paràlisi adquirida del III nervi cranial. S’ha estudiat el percentatge d’apertura palpebral de l’ull parètic respecte a la posició primària i respecte a l’ull sà en 5 posicions de la mirada i la relació entre l’apertura palpebral en adducció i en depressió respecte a la posició primària mitjançant regressió lineal. S’ha comprovat que, rere un quadre de regeneració aberrant, no només hi ha una recuperació parcial o total de la parpella en posició primària, sinó una retracció palpebral en adducció i en depressió.

Prótesis oculo-palpebral: A propósito de un caso clínico

La prótesis maxilofacial comprende aquellos dispositivos artificiales que restauran una parte ausente de la cara, debido a tumores, traumatismos, o como resultado de una anomalía congénita. El objetivo de este artículo es la exposición de un caso clínico que precisaba la confección de una prótesis óculo-palpebral tras sufrir una pérdida de sustancia por causa oncológica. Este tipo de prótesis son de las más difíciles de elaborar con buenos resultados pues intentan reconstruir un órgano móvil con una prótesis estática. La prótesis maxilofacial tiene la finalidad de aumentar la calidad de vida del paciente y ayudar a la seguridad emocional de los mismos, quedando así rehabilitados para poder integrarse nuevamente en la sociedad.

The influence of a certain volume of fluid in the lower tear meniscus on intraocular pressure measurements using the non-contact tonometer

Background: Intraocular pressure (IOP) is the pressure inside the eye that helps to maintain the integrity and the suitable form of the ocular globe. Precise and accurate measures of IOP are needed for the diagnosis as well as follow-up of glaucoma. In daily clinical practice, Goldmann applanation tonometer (GAT) and Non-contact tonometer (NCT) are the most common devices for measuring IOP. A close agreement between these methods has been showed, particularly in normotensive patients and a poor agreement, especially when IOP levels are above the normal range. Ophthalmologists have noticed a poor agreement between NCT and GAT, observing that by using NCT and after comparing with GAT, there is an overestimation of IOP readings, and particularly it occurs when the eyes are tearful. Previous studies investigate the effect of tears in Non-contact tonometer readings by the instillation of artificial tears, concluding in one of the studies that the variation was less than 1mmHg and not clinically significant, in contrast with another study which the increases were sadistically significant. Tear menisci are a thin strip of tear fluid located between the bulbar conjunctiva and the eyelid margins. We think that the overestimation of IOP readings using NCT could be due to the presence of a higher volume of tear in the lower tear meniscus which might cause an optical interference in the optoelectronic applanation monitoring system of this deviceObjectives: To research the influence of a certain volume of fluid in the lower tear meniscus on IOP measurements using the NCT in healthy eyes. Moreover, to investigate the agreement between IOP readings obtained by NCT and GAT in the presence and absence of this volume of fluidMethods: The study design will be transversal for diagnostic tests of repeated measures. We will study patients with no ocular pathology and IOP<21mmHg. It will consist in the measurement of IOP using NCT before and after the instillation of COLIRCUSÍ FLUOTEST, used as a volume of fluid in the lower tear meniscus, to observe if there will be differences using the paired t-test. Moreover, we will take IOP measures by GAT in order to know the agreement between these methods after and before the application of these eyedrops, using the ICC (intraclass correlation coefficient) and the Bland-Altmann method