Biomaterial Database

Balloon catheter dilatation in pediatric patients. 1991

B B Becker, and F D Berry

Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA School of Medicine.

Balloon catheter dilatation was performed in five children with nasolacrimal duct obstruction who had failed probing or silicone intubation, or who were 6 years of age or older. A patent lacrimal system was achieved in four of these children. Balloon catheter dilatation may offer an alternative to silicone intubation in children with nasolacrimal duct obstruction who fail probing or who are at least 2 years old.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007223	Infant	A child between 1 and 23 months of age.	Infants
D007767	Lacrimal Duct Obstruction	Interference with the secretion of tears by the lacrimal glands. Obstruction of the LACRIMAL SAC or NASOLACRIMAL DUCT causing acute or chronic inflammation of the lacrimal sac (DACRYOCYSTITIS). It is caused also in infants by failure of the nasolacrimal duct to open into the inferior meatus and occurs about the third week of life. In adults occlusion may occur spontaneously or after injury or nasal disease. (Newell, Ophthalmology: Principles and Concepts, 7th ed, p250)	Nasolacrimal Duct Obstruction,Tear Duct Obstruction,Duct Obstruction, Lacrimal,Duct Obstruction, Nasolacrimal,Duct Obstruction, Tear,Lacrimal Duct Obstructions,Nasolacrimal Duct Obstructions,Obstruction, Lacrimal Duct,Obstruction, Nasolacrimal Duct,Obstruction, Tear Duct,Tear Duct Obstructions
D008297	Male		Males
D009301	Nasolacrimal Duct	A tubular duct that conveys TEARS from the LACRIMAL GLAND to the nose.	Lacrimal Sac,Tear Duct,Duct, Nasolacrimal,Duct, Tear,Ducts, Nasolacrimal,Ducts, Tear,Lacrimal Sacs,Nasolacrimal Ducts,Sac, Lacrimal,Sacs, Lacrimal,Tear Ducts
D002404	Catheterization	Use or insertion of a tubular device into a duct, blood vessel, hollow organ, or body cavity for injecting or withdrawing fluids for diagnostic or therapeutic purposes. It differs from INTUBATION in that the tube here is used to restore or maintain patency in obstructions.	Cannulation,Cannulations,Catheterizations
D002648	Child	A person 6 to 12 years of age. An individual 2 to 5 years old is CHILD, PRESCHOOL.	Children
D002675	Child, Preschool	A child between the ages of 2 and 5.	Children, Preschool,Preschool Child,Preschool Children
D005260	Female		Females
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D016896	Treatment Outcome	Evaluation undertaken to assess the results or consequences of management and procedures used in combating disease in order to determine the efficacy, effectiveness, safety, and practicability of these interventions in individual cases or series.	Rehabilitation Outcome,Treatment Effectiveness,Clinical Effectiveness,Clinical Efficacy,Patient-Relevant Outcome,Treatment Efficacy,Effectiveness, Clinical,Effectiveness, Treatment,Efficacy, Clinical,Efficacy, Treatment,Outcome, Patient-Relevant,Outcome, Rehabilitation,Outcome, Treatment,Outcomes, Patient-Relevant,Patient Relevant Outcome,Patient-Relevant Outcomes