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Revista Cubana de Oftalmología
On-line version ISSN 1561-3070
Abstract
GUERRA OTERO, Rosa Margarita; RAMIREZ CRUZ, Miguel and LLANO GIL, Amiris. Transcutaneous lower blepharoplasty with external orbicularis oculi muscle fixation in patients with lower eyelid deformities. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2022, vol.35, n.2 Epub June 01, 2022. ISSN 1561-3070.
Objective:
To describe the outcome of the external orbicularis oris muscle fixation technique in lower blepharoplasty.
Methods:
A descriptive, prospective research was conducted in patients who attended the Plastic Surgery consultation of the Hospital “Camilo Cienfuegos” from January 2018 to January 2019, the sample consisted of 43 patients. In order to diagnose them, the Ginsbach classification was used, with smoking as exclusion criteria. Variables such as age, gender, lower palpebral deformity, postoperative complications at 24 h and 30 days, and degree of satisfaction of the operated patients were taken into account. Documentary review, observation, analysis and synthesis and empirical (survey) methods were used to evaluate the results. The research was carried out following ethical procedures.
Results:
They showed that the greatest number of patients was in the age group between 46-50 years old, all of them female; excess skin and goose bumps were the predominant deformities. The complication that occurred was postoperative bleeding resolved in the first hours, 42 patients reported to be satisfied.
Conclusions:
Blepharoplasty is a technique that has been modified along with the need to provide procedures that offer safety and effectiveness, in terms of correction of deformities in the lower eyelid, with adequate recovery time, results with lower risk of complications.
Keywords : blepharoplasty; external orbicularis oris muscle fixation technique; palpebral disorders.