OBJECTIVE To report our pediatric experience with amniotic membrane transplantation for ocular surface and forniceal reconstruction. METHODS Retrospective case review of children who underwent superficial keratectomy, symblepharon lysis, and forniceal reconstruction using amniotic membrane transplantation. The underlying diagnosis, visual acuity, level of discomfort at first and last visits, ...

PURPOSE To describe the clinical outcome of amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) for fornix reconstruction in a variety of ocular surface disorders. DESIGN Noncomparative interventional case series. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen eyes in 15 patients with symblepharon. Four eyes had ocular-cicatricial pemphigoid, two eyes had symblepharon after pterygium excision, four eyes had chemical or mechan...

PURPOSE To identify surgical strategies of fornix reconstruction for symblepharon graded according to the length from the limbus to the lid margin, to the width, and to associated inflammation. DESIGN Retrospective, comparative, interventional case series. METHODS In 61 eyes with symblepharon, cicatrix lysis and amniotic membrane transplantation (AMT) were performed with sutures (n = 34) or...

purpose: to present a case of autosomal dominant dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa with symble-pharon formation due to eye rubbing. case report: a 10-year-old girl suffering from blistering and ulcerative lesions of the trunk and palms and dystrophic nails since childhood was referred to our clinic with a symblepharon connecting the medial portion of the right upper lid to the upper nasal quadra...

SYMBLEPHARON is described by all authors discussing conjunctival diseases as adhesion between the palpebral and bulbar conjunctivae. Its aetiology is described as purulent conjunctivitis, diphtheritic conjunctivitis, trachoma, trauma, and so on. These factors do not always cause symblepharon, but may result in a very troublesome condition, apparently not mentioned in the literature, viz. conjun...

one or both eyelids either partial or complete to the eye-ball. The cornea may or may not participate in this adhesion but 'it usually is somewhat implicated, and this adhesion, between the eyelid and cornea, is called by some " Traumatic Pterygium:' When, besides this condition of affairs, the two eyelids adhere to each other it is called anklyoblepharon. This disease is usually the result of ...

A case of congenital isolated coloboma of both the upper lids from just lateral to the lacrimal punctum up to the medial half, with symblepharon in the region of lower eyelid, was studied in a 7-year-old female child. She did not have any other associated anomalies. The birth and family histories were normal. The puncta were normal in position and well apposed to the globe. The closure of the l...

A case of the congenital symblepharon variant of cryptophthalmos is reported. Surgical treatment is described. The ophthalmic features of cryptophthalmos and its systemic associations are reviewed.