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 |
0/8 |