P065: The Use of FEES in Patients with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis

Abstract

decompression was set by the ophthalmologist. Surgery was performed via an endonasal microscopic-endoscopic approach.Results: A significant improvement of vision after surgical decompression was obtained in 4 patients: The visual acuity of 2 patients increased from recognition of hand motion to 20/400 and to recognition of count fingers, respectively. Another patient experienced an increase of visual acuity from preoperative light perception to postoperative 20/25. The fourth patient improved from 20/500 to 20/200. After surgery, the fifth patient had no change of his preoperative state of complete amaurosis. No specific surgical complications were seen in any of these 5 cases. Conclusion:The surgical decompression of the optic nerve after a time interval of 1 to 5 days has shown a reasonably improved prognosis for reconstitution of vision. Also the surgical intervention is necessary to be performed as early as possible. According to our results, a late decompression is still beneficial.