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. 2020 Oct 21;15:60. doi: 10.1186/s13017-020-00339-8

Table 1.

Summary of studies about decompressive procedures in orbital compartment syndrome (residual visual acuity has been uniformed whenever requested from Snellen Imperial to Snellen metric according to Elliott and Flanagan [1])

Author Year Number of patients Disease Timing Residual visual acuity Blindness Eye loss
Goodall [2] 1999 6 Trauma Within 2 h from causative event 6/7 0/6 0/6
Vassallo [3] 2002 1 Trauma Within 3.5 h from causative event 6/24 0/1 0/1
Katz [4] 1983 2 Trauma Almost 4.5 h from causative event 6/12 0/2 0/2
Sun [5] 2014 8 Trauma Almost 2.6 h from causative event 6/12 1/8 0/8
Castro [6] 2000 1 Post endoscopic sinus surgery Almost 0.5 h from causative event 6/9 0/1 0/1
Wladis [7] 2007 1 Post endovascular procedure Within 0.5 h from causative event 6/9 0/1 0/1
Jenkins [8] 2017 1 Trauma 48 h from causative event nr nr nr
Key [9] 2008 3 Trauma 11.3 h from causative event 6/7 0/3 0/3
See [10] 2015 1 Post endoscopic sinus surgery 1 h after surgery 6/6 0/1 0/1
Colletti [11] 2017 1 Post endovascular surgery nr nr nr nr
Huang [12] 2018 1 (bilateral) disseminated intravascular coagulation 0.5 h after onset of symptoms (epistaxis) 6/6 & 6/60 0/1 0/1
Suassez [13] 1998 2 Post endoscopic sinus surgery 1 h after surgery 6/6 0/2 0/2
Gillum [14] 1981 1 Trauma 1 h after causative event 6/7 0/1 0/1
Korinth [15] 2002 15 Trauma 70 h (2 h–15 days) Restored in 9, defective in 4 0/15 0/15
Larsen [16] 1999 1 Trauma 2.5 h after causative events 6/7 0/1 0/1
Susarla [17] 2016 1 Post orbital floor reconstruction 14 h after surgery 6/30 0/1 0/1
Schwitkis [18] 2018 1 Trauma 1.5 h after causative events 6/6 0/1 0/1
Tran [19] 2013 1 Mastication 2 h after causative events 6/6 0/1 0/1
Sampath [20] 1995 1 Trauma 1 h after causative events 6/6 0/1 0/1
Hislop [2] 1994 2 Trauma/surgery nr nr nr nr
McInnes [21] 2002 1 Trauma nr nr nr nr
Carrim [22] 2007 1 Trauma 1.5 h after causative events 6/6 0/1 0/1
Jamal [23] 2009 1 Trauma 48 h after causative events 6/15 0/1 0/1
Maurer [24] 2013 6 Trauma 1.5 h after symptom onset Normal vision 2/6, impaired vision 2/6, loss of vision 2/6 2/6 0/6
Pamucku [25] 2015 1 Trauma 1.5 h after symptom onset 6/7 0/1 0/1
Li [26] 1995 1 Orthognathic surgery 7 h after surgery - 1/1 0/1
Yang [27] 2018 1 Neoplastic hemorrhage nr - 1/1 0/1
Amorin-Correa [28] 2017 1 Ophthalmic artery occlusion (post spine surgery prone position) 26 h after spine surgery - 1/1 0/1
Voss [29] 2016 14 Trauma nr nr 3/14 0/14
Lee [30] 2006 1 Trauma 6 h after causative event 6/12 0/1 0/1
Popat [31] 2005 1 Trauma 5 h after causative event - 1/1 0/1
Amagasaki [32] 1998 1 Trauma “Immediate decompression” 6/6 0/1 0/1
Gauden [33] 2012 1 Intracranial surgery nr nr 0/1 0/1
Pahl [34] 2018 1 Intracranial surgery nr 6/60 0/1 0/1
Yu [35] 2008 1 Spine surgery (prone position) 28 h after surgery nr 1/1 0/1
Colletti [36] 2012 8 Trauma (2) and maxilla-facial surgery (6)

a. Almost 2.6 h from traumatic event

b. 12.7 h after surgery

a. two restored vision (traumatic)

b. Three impaired vision and two restored vision

a. 0/2 traumatic

b. 1/6 after surgery

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