Peer-reviewed veterinary case report
Horse with eyelid problem after injury - how surgery helped
By Henriksen, Michala de Linde et al.·Published in Veterinary ophthalmology·2013·Department of Small and Large Animal Clinical Sciences, United States·View original on PubMed →
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Original publication title: Modified Kuhnt-Szymanowski surgical procedure for secondary cicatricial ectropion in a horse.
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Plain-English summary
A 1-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding had a problem with his right lower eyelid turning outward (ectropion) after a laceration. The initial repair didn’t hold, leading to further issues, including a corneal ulcer in his eye. At the University of Florida's Large Animal Hospital, a special surgical procedure called the modified Kuhnt-Szymanowski was performed to fix the eyelid. The surgery was successful, and the horse healed well, with no further eye problems reported in the following 18 months.
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Abstract
A 1-year-old Dutch Warmblood gelding was presented to the University of Florida's Large Animal Hospital (UF-LAH) for correction of ectropion of the right lower eyelid. The ectropion was the result of a lower eyelid laceration. A primary repair was performed by the referring veterinarian; however, the horse prematurely removed the sutures and the wound healed with inversion of the eyelid margin. Surgical correction of the entropion, with removal of tissue from the lower eyelid, resulted in cicatricial ectropion. During the initial evaluation at UF-LAH, a corneal ulcer was noted in the right eye because of exposure from the anatomically nonfunctional lower eyelid. A modified Kuhnt-Szymanowski procedure was performed to correct the ectropion and repair the eyelid margin. The surgical site healed appropriately with an acceptable cosmetic and functional result. No recurrences of corneal ulcers in the right eye were reported in the 18 months following surgical correction of the ectropion.
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Search related cases →Original publication on PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22958337/