Abstract
Purpose :
Purpose: At times in ophthalmology instead of vision-enhancing or vision-preserving procedures, it is necessary to perform eye destructive procedures, including evisceration, enucleation, and exenteration. The purpose of this study was to analyze over a five year period the number of eye destructive procedures and investigate the most common indication for said procedures.
Methods :
Methods: After obtaining IRB approval all medical records from August of 2010-February of 2015 from patients having eye destructive procedures performed by one surgeon at one academic tertiary care facility were reviewed investigating clinical indication for the procedure.
Results :
Results: There were 103 eye destructive procedures performed on 101 patients at one institution over the roughly 5 year period. Of these 103, 69% of the procedures were enucleations, 27% were exenterations, and 4% were eviscerations. The two most common indications for procedure were trauma (40%) and malignancy (34%). The other noted indications were blind painful eye (15%), infection (10%), and ruptured cornea (1%).
Conclusions :
Discussion: As one might imagine more complicated cases were very common indications for eye destructive procedures at a tertiary care center. The hospital is a level I trauma which would account for a high volume of trauma cases. Also given that there is a large cancer center the high incidence of malignancy is accounted for as well. There were also five exenterations performed because of invasive mucormycosis. In these five patients, four had known malignancies and one had immunodeficiency secondary to unknown reason which was being worked up at the patients time of death. These numbers suggest that often complicated orbital trauma and malignancies are transferred or referred to tertiary care centers for definitive management and treatment. Our institution has a large cancer center, which contributes to our significant number of procedures secondary to those malignancy as well as malignancy related infections.
This is an abstract that was submitted for the 2016 ARVO Annual Meeting, held in Seattle, Wash., May 1-5, 2016.