The polyurethane nasolacrimal duct stent for lower tear duct obstruction: long-term success rate and complications

Schaudig, Ulrich; Maas, R.

doi:10.1007/s004170000187

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“…Many authors agree on the attractiveness of a polyurethane stent used as an alternative to conventional dacryocystorhinostomy because it offers an easy, effective, safe, and reversible way to manage lacrimal drainage problems (Kang et al 2002;Lanciego et al 2001;Pinto et al 2001;Schaudig et al 2000;Wilhelm et al 2002); however, this method has not yet gained widespread acceptance among ophthalmologists and interventional radiologists. This is due to the longterm results which to date are less than favorable.…”

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“…The nasolacrimal duct system (right eye, frontal view) shows incomplete obstruction of the NLDS (arrow in a). The main problem of the procedure is the ten-dency towards obstruction of the stent by granulation tissue or mucoid material in the proximal portion of the mushroom stent (Schaudig et al 2000). The primary result with these techniques seemed promising (Perena et al 2001;Song et al 1996;Wilhelm et al 1997).…”

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Atlas of Lacrimal Surgery

Weber¹

2007

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PrefaceTo dry people's eyes -that's one of the great challenges in lacrimal surgery. Different localizations of the stenosis, lesions after tumor surgery or trauma, and epiphora in children or adults are different conditions that need various operative procedures to treat a patient individually and successfully.The close relationship between the eyes and nose demands an interdisciplinary approach to lacrimal surgery. Therefore, ophthalmologists, otorhinolaryngologists as well as plastic surgeons are invited to contribute in solving a patient's problem.This book is intended to serve as a practically oriented reference. In the first part, it contains chapters on pertinent surgical anatomy, physiology and pathophysiology as well as basic clinical and radiological evaluation. In the second part, well-known authorities from all over the world present their experience in all operative procedures currently available to dry patients' eyes. The accompanying DVD contains video clips of different operations highlighting key portions of these procedures.

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Atlas of Lacrimal Surgery

Weber¹

2007

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“…Comparing the results of all existing studies the conclusion met in the present study could almost be expected, however failed to be proven so far. The longer the follow-up period (6 months, 1 year, 2 years) [8,9,11,12,13,21,28,29] the lower was the success rate or the rate of patent stents. The early postoperative [2] to early medium-term [3] results of our patients (i.e.…”

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“…Other authors found similar or worse results. Pabon et al [12] reported a stent patency of 72% in a follow-up period of 1 year, and Schaudig and Maas [21] found a success rate of 50% for the same period.…”

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Polyurethane stents for lacrimal duct stenoses: 5-year results

Bertelmann

Rieck

2005

Graefe's Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmo

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“…Interestingly, the only contraindication for nasolacrimal stent placement is acute dacryocystitis, while canalicular obstruction, LDS structural malformations, dacryolithiasis, sac neoplasm or previous sinus surgery, which generally preclude balloon dacryocystoplasty, can be considered as relative exclusion criteria (40). Table 2 reports several experiences of nasolacrimal stenting (17,(40)(41)(42)(44)(45)(46)(47)(48)(49).…”

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The role of interventional radiology in the treatment of epiphora

Patella¹,

Panella²,

Zannoni³

et al. 2018

Gland Surg.

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Epiphora is a relatively common ophthalmologic affection representing almost 5% of clinical consultations in ophthalmology and it consists in the complete or partial obstruction of nasolacrimal duct, leading to insufficient drainage of tears. The traditional treatment is represented by surgery namely, external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR). Despite the high success rate DCR has many disadvantages and limitations since it requires general anesthesia, it may arise in a permanent facial scar and it is often affected by the reobstruction of the anastomotic tract by fibrotic scars and osteogenic activity. Fluoroscopically guided interventional procedures are a therapeutic alternative to surgery for lacrimal duct system obstructions that can consist either in balloon dacryocystoplasty or in nasolacrimal stent placement. In both cases, a pre-operative imaging characterization of the occlusion is needed for a correct treatment planning. In this review, we propose to highlight the role of interventional radiology in the treatment of epiphora and the role of computed tomography dacryocystography (CTD) in depiction and the pre-interventional planning.

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The polyurethane nasolacrimal duct stent for lower tear duct obstruction: long-term success rate and complications

Cited by 16 publications

References 9 publications

Atlas of Lacrimal Surgery

Atlas of Lacrimal Surgery

Polyurethane stents for lacrimal duct stenoses: 5-year results

The role of interventional radiology in the treatment of epiphora

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