• Med Glas (Zenica) · Feb 2023

    Correlation between clinical outcomes and patients' satisfaction using tarsoconjunctival - Hughes flap for the reconstruction of eyelid defects.

    • Nina Jovanović, Patricia Reisz-Majić, Sunita Mehic-Fazlić, Selma Terzić, Jasmina Alajbegović Halimić, and Admira Dizdarević.
    • Ophthalmology Department, Cantonal Hospital Zenica, Zenica, Bosnia and Herzegovina.
    • Med Glas (Zenica). 2023 Feb 1; 20 (1).

    AbstractAim To examine and quantify patients' satisfaction and correlate with the objective clinical presentation after the treatment and to present a comprehensive literature review on tarsoconjunctival/ Hughes flap technique. Methods A review of more than 159 peer-review articles and a combined retrospective-prospective two-centres case series of 17 patients who underwent a two-stage modified Hughes flap procedure (2019-2021) to repair a lower eyelid defect caused by epithelial cancer was conducted. All patients were followed up for a minimum of six months. Patient macroscopic evaluation of redness, lid position, retraction, trichiasis, conjunctival overgrowth, tissue inflammation/infection and hypertrophic scarring were obtained, and findings were graded on a scale of 1 to 5 or binary YES/NO scale. Patients' satisfaction using a Likert-type scale and correlation with the clinical presentation were analysed. Results Pearson correlation coefficient between patients' satisfaction and clinical presentation was 0.534. Out of 510 (the highest summed score for patients' satisfaction), the total score was 479 (93.9%); out of 187 (the highest summed score for clinical presentation), the total score was 162 (86.6%). Although both scores were high, a lower correlation coefficient and the higher satisfaction score can be explained by more realistic expectations in oncological patients compared to cosmetic ones. Conclusion Hughes flaps provide multiple benefits in the reconstruction of selected patients with large defects, especially when poor wound healing is expected, or when local advancement flaps do not provide tension-free reconstruction. The rate of complications is low and manageable, whereas additional therapy is usually observational or symptomatic.Copyright© by the Medical Assotiation of Zenica-Doboj Canton.

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