Evisceration: our experience for last 8 years in a peripheral medical college in West Bengal.

BIVAS BALA; SIMA BISWAS

Volume : IX, Issue : VI, June - 2020

Evisceration: our experience for last 8 years in a peripheral medical college in West Bengal.

Bivas Bala, Sima Biswas

Abstract :

Aim: The aim of this study is to determine the indications for evisceration and complication associated with it. Patients and Methods: This retrospective study done over a period of 8 years from December 2012 to November 2019 in department of ophthalmology of Malda Medical college, West Bengal, India. Case record & data of each eviscerated patient was obtained from medical record section of the hospital and analyzed regarding patients‘ demographic character, clinical indication for evisceration, pattern or orbital implant and post–operative complication. Results: During the study period total 107 evisceration operation was done. Most of them are male and in between 21–49 years of age. Severely traumatized eye is the commonest clinical indication followed by panophthalmitis due to neglected corneal ulcer or endophthalmitis. Primary orbital implant done in 68.22% cases. Implant exposure or extrusion seen in 6.84% cases while partial conjunctival dehiscence seen in 14.95% patients. None of them develop sympathetic ophthalmia. Conclusion: In severely traumatized eye with no PL or in panophthalmitis evisceration with primary orbital implant gives satisfactory result.