In the present article, cases of lacrimal apparatus conditions emerging after a new Coronavirus infection COVID-19. The aim of the study is to determine the causes of epiphora in patients after Coronavirus infection.
26 patients (30 eyes) were examined, aged from 28 to 70 years, complaining of tearing, which emerged for the first time ever not earlier than 514 days from the onset of the laboratory-confirmed Coronavirus infection COVID-19, which had a mild or a moderately severe course and was accompanied by anosmia.
In patients, following conditions of the lacrimal system were revealed: in 22 patients, there were pathological changes of the horizontal portion of lacrimal pathways; in 6 people dry eye syndrome was diagnosed: in 3 people, it was of mild severity, manifested by hyperlacrimia, 3 people had moderate severity of the dry eye syndrome. As concomitant, following signs were revealed: in 7 patients rhinologic conditions were present, in 2 people neurologic signs.
In the examined group of patients with epiphora, we found that in 1.53 month after Coronavirus infection COVID-19 with anosmia, as a common sign of the disease in more than a half of cases, a development of pathological changes of the horizontal portion of lacrimal pathways was revealed.
The article is concerned with the life journey of the phtisioophthamologist Professor Elena Ivanovna Ustinova who celebrated her 95th anniversary on October 19th, 2022
The article presents a clinical case of surgical of a recurrent chronic purulent dacryocystitisof traumatic etiology. Under endoscopic control, the patient underwent a revisional endonasal laser dacryocystorhinostomy with bicanalicular silicone stent. All surgical steps were controlled on the navigation system display. Navigation equipment was used to accurately visualize the structures of the nasal cavity and lacrimal pathways, because the anatomy of this area was changed as a result of the midface trauma and preliminary unsuccessful surgical procedures. During surgery, the functional and anatomical patency of the lacrimal pathways was achieved. Thus, the navigation system is a useful supplementary equipment that allows identifying the lacrimal sac in complex surgical situations, to monitor the state of lacrimal passages and surrounding nasal structures, which ultimately increases the effectiveness and safety of the procedure.
Information about the sudden death of a Doctor of Medical Sciences, Head of the Department of dacryology and ophthalmoplasty of the Cheboksary branch of the S.N. Fyodorov Eye Microsurgery Federal State Institution, Doctor of the highest qualification category Sergey F. Shkolnik.
Article is dedicated to the 100th birth anniversary of the Hero of Socialist Labor, Honored worker of science of RSFSR professor V.V. Volkov. Authors described his life, scientific and pedagogic activity.
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