Table 1.
Patient details and treatment
| Procedure done to | |||||||||||||
| Patient No | Age | Sex | Diagnosis | RUL | LUL | RLL | LLL | Procedure date | Follow up (months) | Re-open postop | Subjective score | Schirmer I and II | Lubricant frequent |
| 1 | 71 | M | C | C* | Jan 99 | 34 | 1 Month | 1 | Slight increase | Every hour to every 2 hours | |||
| 2 | 63 | F | C | C | C* | C | May 99 | 30 | 3 Month | 1 | Unchanged | Unchanged | |
| 3 | 77 | M | C | C | May 99 | 30 | 3 | Unchanged | Every hour to every 4 hours | ||||
| 4 | 64 | M | C* | C* | May 99 | 30 | 3 Month | 1 | Unchanged | Unchanged | |||
| 5 | 66 | F | SJ | C | C | Sep 99 | 26 | 2 | Unchanged | Unchanged | |||
| 6 | 50 | M | C | C | Nov 99 | 24 | 3 | Unchanged | Every hour to every 2 hours | ||||
| 7 | 63 | F | C | C | Jan 00 | 22 | 2 | Unchanged | Unchanged | ||||
| 8 | 37 | F | SJ | C | C | F | F | Feb 00 | 21 | 3 Month | 1 | Unchanged | Unchanged |
| 9 | 44 | F | SJ | C | C | Apr 00 | 19 | 3 | Slight increase | Unchanged | |||
| 10 | 67 | F | C | C | Aug 00 | 14 | 2 | Slight increase | Unchanged | ||||
| 11 | 26 | F | C | C | Aug 00 | 14 | 3 | Unchanged | Every hour to every 4 hours | ||||
C = closed completely; C* = appears re-opened but actually closed; F = failure, punctum re-opened; Sj = Sjögren’s syndrome.