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  5. FP0447 : DOES OCULAR SURGERY FLARE UP BLEPHERITIS IN PATIENTS WITH MYASTHENIA?-AN INTRESTING OBSERVATION!

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Chief & Presenting Author: Dr.Porishmita Baruah

Co Author(s): Dr.Tapan Gogoi

Abstract

METHODS- 5 PATIENTS WERE INCLUDED .FIRST PATIENT PRESENTED WITH PTOSIS ( LEFT EYE) WITH SIGNS OF ANTERIOR BLEPHERITIS 15 DAYS POST CATARACT SURGERY.SECOND PATIENT PRESENTED WITH DIPLOPIA,BLEPHERITIS AND FEVER HAVING GIVEN A HISTORY RECCURRENT EPISODES(BLEPHERITIS) .THIRD PATIENT – PTOSIS AND TRAUMATIC CATARACT . ON 21 DAYS POST SURGERY THERE WAS EXTREME PHOTOPHOBIA AND EXCORIATION AROUND EYELIDS.OTHER TWO PATIENTS HAD ENTROPION SURGERY IN LOWER EYELID.ON FOLLOWUP THEY HAD ECZEMA OF LIDS .BOTH WERE DIAGNOSED CASES OF MYASTHENIA
.RESULTS AND CONCLUSION- OCULAR SURGERY MIGHT HAVE BEEN A TRIGGERING FACTOR FOR BLEPHARITIS TO OCCUR .CONCURRENT RELAPSES AND A SHARED PAST WERE PRESENT IN BOTH DISORDERS PATIENTS ARE CURRENTLY ON FOLLOW UP MEDICATIONS.
WITH AN ASSUMPTION THAT THERE COULD BE A POSSIBLITY OF A LINKED THEORY BETWEEN THE OCCURENCES OF BOTH DISEASES THE STUDY WAS DONE.DUE TO PAUCITY IN THE LITERATURE BETWEEN BLEPHERITIS AND OMG NO SPECIFIC CONCLUSION COULD BE DRAWN.