Dacryocystitis (Dacryoadenitis)

01/01/1991 - "Only one patient who had acute dacryocystitis at age 5 months required a probing of the duct and a regimen of systemic antibiotics to achieve good results."
01/01/2014 - "β-Lactam antibiotics, considered the first-line treatment for dacryocystitis, were ineffective. "
12/01/2014 - "After no response to 1 week of oral antibiotics for a presumed diagnosis of dacryocystitis and the presence of firm mass extending above the medial canthal tendon, surgical exploration was carried out which revealed a lacrimal sac mass. "
09/01/2014 - "Cases of dacryocystitis caused by Proteus species are usually responsive to several standard antibiotics used orally in eye care; however, culturing and susceptibility testing can streamline the diagnostic and management sequence considerably in unclear or unresponsive cases. "
09/01/2014 - "Dacryocystitis has a distinctive clinical presentation and is usually easily treated when appropriate oral antibiotics are directed at the underlying pathogen. "

05/01/2012 - "A unique case of IgG4 sclerosing dacryocystitis."
05/01/2012 - "IgG4 disease should be especially considered in patients with a bilateral dacryoadenitis and systemic features (eg, lung and gastrointestinal involvement). "
01/01/2010 - "From the histopathological examinations, he was diagnosed with chronic sclerosing dacryoadenitis with high level of the serum IgG4. "
03/01/2014 - "Steroid therapy was effective in seven patients, but dacryoadenitis relapsed in two patients with markedly higher serum IgG4 levels and autoimmune pancreatitis. "
03/01/2015 - "However, recent studies have indicated that some patients with KT develop high serum levels of IgG4 and infiltration of IgG4-positive plasma cells, namely IgG4-related dacryoadenitis and sialoadenitis (IgG4-DS), so-called Mikulicz's disease. "

12/01/2011 - "To observe the clinical efficacy of spherical headed silicone implantation in the treatment of chronic dacryocystitis under nasal endoscopy. "
09/01/2014 - "A 5-year-old child was presented with severe chronic dacryocystitis of both eyes after several interventions for lacrimal duct surgery with silicone intubation had been carried out. "
06/01/2013 - "It's concluded that the modified silicone mold implantation can avoid the recurrent atresia of the aperture created by the dacryorhinocystotomy, which proves that the combination with the modified silicone mold implantation in dacryorhinocystotomy is an effective treatment method of curing recurrent dacryocystitis."
06/01/2013 - "[Twenty-three cases of recurrent dacryocystitis treated with modified silicone mold implantation]."
01/01/2012 - "Revision external DCR and bicanalicular nasal intubation by silicone tubing under endonasal endoscopic guidance can be recommended in patients with recurrent dacryocystitis as a surgical approach that achieves satisfactory objective and subjective success rates."

01/01/1983 - "Management of chronic dacryocystitis by polythene intubation."
12/01/2004 - "A 23-year-old-woman underwent uneventful left DCR with rubber gum and polyethylene tubing for chronic dacryocystitis. "
12/01/1972 - "Polyethylene intubation of the nasolacrimal duct in chronic dacryocystitis. "
08/01/1957 - "[Permanent intubation of the naso-lacrimal duct with polyethylene tube in dacryocystitis; remote results]."
07/01/1953 - "[Technic and results of permanent intubation with polyethylene tube of the naso-lacrimal duct in dacryocystitis]."

01/01/2003 - "Patency of DCR was evaluated by fluorescein dye application to the conjunctiva, endoscopy with a 2.7 mm rigid endoscope or by means of clinical parameters, such as tearing or recurrent dacryocystitis. "
02/01/2012 - "Success was determined by symptomatic relief of epiphora and dacryocystitis, together with the endoscopic findings of free passage of the fluorescein dye that is applied to the conjunctiva to the nasal cavity. "
08/01/2005 - "Surgery failure was defined as (1) no marked improvement in tearing or any episode of postoperative dacryocystitis, (2) inability to irrigate the lacrimal system postoperatively, and (3) postoperative nasal endoscopy with scarring in the intranasal osteotomy or no visualization of fluorescein dye. "

06/01/2009 - "To use a rabbit model of induced autoimmune dacryoadenitis to evaluate the efficacy of topical ophthalmic cyclosporine A (CsA). "
04/01/1993 - "Treatment of experimental autoimmune dacryoadenitis with cyclosporin A."
06/01/2009 - "Long-term topical cyclosporine treatment improves tear production and reduces keratoconjunctivitis in rabbits with induced autoimmune dacryoadenitis."
04/01/1998 - "Other complications included choroidal pseudolymphoma, central retinal vein occlusion, herpes zoster ophthalmicus, herpetic keratitis, dacryocystitis, cyclosporin retinopathy, and rifabutin associated uveitis. "

07/01/2010 - "Chloramphenicol is the most effective drug of choice for chronic dacryocystitis."
01/01/2010 - "Chloramphenicol and tetracycline were effective against these common organisms and are recommended for the clinical treatment of dacryocystitis."
07/01/1987 - "Forty-four infants with severe conjunctivitis, with or without dacryocystitis, were randomly assigned to treatment with either topical chloramphenicol or oral erythromycin for 14 days. "

02/01/2014 - "Idiopathic inflammatory tumor of the lacrimal gland, also called idiopathic dacryoadenitis, generally is treated with high-dose, long-term systemic corticosteroids, despite their limited success, high recurrence rate, and incidence of drug-induced side effects. "
07/01/2009 - "Successful surgical treatment for chronic dacryocystitis with recurrent lacrimal sac phlegmon in a female patient with WG has been used as an example to show that endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy is the most sparing surgical treatment of dacryocystitis and therefore it is preferable in WG patients and effective at remission during systemic therapy with additional doses of corticosteroids in the pre- and postoperative periods. "
09/01/1965 - "[A combined use of alpha-chymotrypsin with corticosteroids in the treatment of chronic dacryocystitis and lacrimal duct stenosis]."

10/01/2014 - "To compare the efficacy of external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) with and without intraoperative application of mitomycin-C in patients with chronic dacryocystitis. "
10/01/2014 - "Efficacy of external dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) with and without mitomycin-C in chronic dacryocystitis."
05/01/2012 - "The patients with indication for dacryocystorhinostomy surgery with silicone intubation (inappropriate lacrimal sac or nasal mucosal flaps during surgery and/or history of dacryocystitis in the past 3 months) were randomly assigned to application of mitomycin C (0.02%) on surgical flaps (group A) or a control group without mitomycin C application (group B). "

03/15/1998 - "These observations provide strong evidence for a dacryoadenitis-promoting role of male gonadal hormones in NOD mice, a finding that contrasts the known androgen-mediated protective effects on insulitis and submandibulitis in the same strain and on dacryoadenitis in other animal models of Sjögren's syndrome."

01/01/2013 - "Endonasal endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy is beneficial for recurrent dacryocystitis."
10/01/1993 - "These findings not only confirm the previous findings, that tear secretion in patients with chronic dacryocystitis was reduced and break-up time was not affected, but also indicate that the reduction of tear secretion can be eliminated by a successful dacryocystorhinostomy."
08/01/2014 - "External dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) has long been considered as the gold standard treatment for nasolacrimal duct obstruction or chronic dacryocystitis. "
05/15/1990 - "Lacrimal surgery was required in only one patient who had coexistent bilateral nasolacrimal duct obstruction and chronic dacryocystitis and who responded well to bilateral dacryocystorhinostomy."
09/01/1984 - "A seven-year-old case with chronic dacryocystitis resulting from congenital obstruction of the nasolacrimal duct was cured not by a dacryocystorhinostomy but by probing of the duct. "

01/01/2006 - "He reviews treatments divided into the following groups: 1) operations applying an external approach to the lacrimal sac, such as Toti's-type ones; 2) those applying an intranasal approach to the lacrimal sac, such as West's-type operations; 3) intranasal endoscopic microdacryocystorhinostomies; 4) intranasal laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 5) transcanalicular endoscopic laser microdacryocystorhinostomies; 6) operations that recanalize the lacrimal duct; 7) medical treatments of dacryocystitis. "
03/01/2002 - "Sixty patients with chronic dacryocystitis with partially retained patency of the lacrimal duct were treated by He-Ne low-frequency laser ULF-01 (output power 6.10 mcWt, laser beam wave length 0.632 nm). "
12/01/2015 - "The purpose of this study is to study the operative difficulties and success rate of transcanalicular laser-assisted endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy in patients of chronic dacryocystitis with deviated nasal septum (DNS). "
12/01/2015 - "Our experience with transcanalicular laser-assisted endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (TCLADCR) in patients of chronic dacryocystitis with deviated nasal septum."
09/01/2013 - "Patients with dacryocystitis and lacrimal canaliculi orifice obliteration received surgical treatment: microendoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy, transcanalicularis laser dacryocystorhinostomy, and microendoscopic canaliculocystorhinostomy. "

07/01/2002 - "[Mycotic dacryocystitis related to naso-lacrimal stent. "
07/01/2015 - "Patients without dacryocystitis underwent NSTI, while those with dacryocystitis underwent NSTI or endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy (EN-DCR) using the NST as a stent. "
03/01/2014 - "chelonae dacryocystitis after undergoing endoscopic sinus surgery and right endoscopic dacryocystorhinostomy (DCR) with Crawford stent placement. "
01/01/2005 - "If it fails, endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy with stents is the definitive treatment of children's dacryocystitis."
04/01/2014 - "Recurrent dacryocystitis and lacrimocutaneous fistula caused by a retained Griffiths' collar button stent."

05/01/2014 - "When performed in a low lateral position or along the frontal process of the frontal-maxillary suture, osteotomies can potentially tear the medial canthal tendon and injure the underlying lacrimal sac, possibly resulting in dacryocystitis. "
08/01/2005 - "Surgery failure was defined as (1) no marked improvement in tearing or any episode of postoperative dacryocystitis, (2) inability to irrigate the lacrimal system postoperatively, and (3) postoperative nasal endoscopy with scarring in the intranasal osteotomy or no visualization of fluorescein dye. "

09/01/1939 - "INFANTILE DACRYOCYSTITIS TREATED BY SURGICAL DIATHERMY."
07/01/2004 - "A prospective study on 27 cases of chronic dacryocystitis was done to see the outcome of management by End-DCR in Indian population and to look for advantages or disadvantages over Ext-DCR from available datas in literature All cases were diagnosed clinically by regurgitation test and lacrimal syringing In selected cases Jones dye test, dacryocystogram and CT scan of nose and paranasal sinuses (PNS) was done to confirm the site of obstruction and find out the cause Cases having hyperlacrumation due to other causes and epiphora due to presaccal stenosis were excluded Cause of NLD obstruction was atrophic rhinitis (4 cases), chronic sinusitis (4 cases), enlarged agger nasi cells (4 cases), faciomaxillary injury (1 case) and unknown in rest of cases All cases were treated by End-DCR under local anaesthesia Concommitent nose and PNS surgeries were done in selected cases where it was supposed to be the cause Average follow-up was from 3 months to 1 year Primary success rate was 92 6% and after revision in two cases final success was 96% Success rate was 100% in cases of atrophie rhinitis Major complication was not found in any case Our result of End-DCR was as good as Ext-DCR Our results of End-DCR are better than those who had used lacnmal stent, lasers, microdebriders, dacryoendoscope and electrocautery It was finally concluded that end-DCR by using simple instruments is a safe and effective procedure."