Globe Loss From Intraocular Invasion of MIRAgel Scleral Buckle Components. 2016

Tal J Rubinstein, and Maria M Choudhary, and Yasha S Modi, and Justis P Ehlers, and Julian D Perry
*Cole Eye Institute, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio, U.S.A.

OBJECTIVE To describe intraocular invasion of MIRAgel scleral buckles requiring evisceration. METHODS This is an Institutional Review Board-approved retrospective consecutive case series of eyes requiring evisceration secondary to intraocular intrusion of MIRAgel implants performed at the Cole Eye Institute from 2000 to 2014. Charts were reviewed for age at surgery, gender, laterality, time between MIRAgel placement and evisceration, preoperative examination and imaging results, intraoperative findings, postoperative complications, and duration of follow up. RESULTS Five eyes of 5 patients underwent evisceration due to a blind, painful eye secondary to MIRAgel expansion. The mean time between MIRAgel placement and evisceration was 21 years (range: 17-30 years). Preoperative ultrasound identified intraocular MIRAgel in 3 of 5 cases; however, intraocular MIRAgel was identified during surgery in all 5 cases. A transocular-approach orbitotomy was performed at the time of evisceration in an effort to remove the MIRAgel. Postoperative complications included ptosis and inability to retain an ocular prosthesis. No cases of orbital implant extrusion occurred. CONCLUSIONS Scleral invasion and intraocular penetration of MIRAgel may occur decades after placement. This may result in a blind, painful eye requiring evisceration and orbitotomy to remove residual material. Suspicion of intraocular penetration of implant should be high in blind, painful eyes. Surgical removal can be difficult due to MIRAgel fragmentation. Conjunctival insufficiency may result in the need for further surgery after evisceration.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D008875 Middle Aged An adult aged 45 - 64 years. Middle Age
D011102 Polyhydroxyethyl Methacrylate A biocompatible, hydrophilic, inert gel that is permeable to tissue fluids. It is used as an embedding medium for microscopy, as a coating for implants and prostheses, for contact lenses, as microspheres in adsorption research, etc. Glycol Methacrylate Gel,Hydroxymethacrylate Gel,PHEMA,Poly-Hema,Polyglycol Methacrylate,Gel, Glycol Methacrylate,Gel, Hydroxymethacrylate,Methacrylate Gel, Glycol,Methacrylate, Polyglycol,Methacrylate, Polyhydroxyethyl,Poly Hema
D012086 Reoperation A repeat operation for the same condition in the same patient due to disease progression or recurrence, or as followup to failed previous surgery. Revision, Joint,Revision, Surgical,Surgery, Repeat,Surgical Revision,Repeat Surgery,Revision Surgery,Joint Revision,Revision Surgeries,Surgery, Revision
D005260 Female Females
D005500 Follow-Up Studies Studies in which individuals or populations are followed to assess the outcome of exposures, procedures, or effects of a characteristic, e.g., occurrence of disease. Followup Studies,Follow Up Studies,Follow-Up Study,Followup Study,Studies, Follow-Up,Studies, Followup,Study, Follow-Up,Study, Followup
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000368 Aged A person 65 years of age or older. For a person older than 79 years, AGED, 80 AND OVER is available. Elderly
D000369 Aged, 80 and over Persons 80 years of age and older. Oldest Old
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective

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