Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Use of a chronic soft tissue expansion device to facilitate blepharoplasty in a horse with lower-lid cicatricial ectropion with a 14-year follow-up.
- Journal:
- Veterinary ophthalmology
- Year:
- 2020
- Authors:
- Whittaker, Cameron J et al.
- Affiliation:
- Eye Clinic for Animals · Australia
- Species:
- horse
Plain-English summary
A 3-year-old Thoroughbred filly was taken to a specialized horse hospital because she had a serious problem with her lower eyelid, which was turning outward and causing irritation to her eye. Traditional surgery wouldn't work for her condition, so the veterinarians used a special device to stretch the surrounding tissue, allowing them to perform a more effective surgery to fix her eyelid. Two months after the surgery, her eye irritation had cleared up, and even after 14 years, she only had a slight return of the irritation with no major issues. Overall, the treatment was successful and led to a good outcome for the filly.
Abstract
A 3-year-old Thoroughbred filly presented to a referral equine hospital for surgical correction of a severe cicatricial lateral lower eyelid ectropion OD, with secondary exposure keratitis. The severity of the ectropion deemed that conventional ectropion repairs would be unsuccessful. Therefore, a soft tissue expansion device was used to create sufficient local tissue for a rotational graft with tension-relieving horizontal incisions to be performed to facilitate closure and acceptable eyelid apposition. The keratitis had resolved by two months postoperatively. There were no long-term complications and only mild recurrence of the keratitis observed 14-years postoperatively.
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