Medpor(r) Enophthalmos Wedge Implants in Enophthalmos Correction.

Kim, Byoung Jin; Kim, Yoon Duck

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 2002;43(9):1559-1569.
Published online September 1, 2002.

Medpor(r) Enophthalmos Wedge Implants in Enophthalmos Correction.

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

Medpor(R) Enophthalmos Wedge Implant를 이용한 안구함몰의 치료

김병진 ( Byoung Jin Kim ) , 김윤덕 ( Yoon Duck Kim )

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.

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