Is congenital small cleft eye related to heredity

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It's a congenital eye disease. Do you know it's related to children? Let's talk about it.

Is congenital small cleft eye related to heredity

First of all, congenital blepharophimosis ptosis epicanthus inverse syndrome (BPES), also known as Komoto's syndrome, is an autosomal dominant genetic disease. The incidence of blepharoptosis in the West accounted for 3.5%; male: female = 2:1. It can be seen that this is a kind of disease which has an important relationship with heredity, and it is also a congenital disease. We should pay attention to the treatment after getting the disease.

Secondly, the appearance of bilateral complete severe ptosis, inverted epicanthus, palpebral fissure length is generally less than 20 mm (normal length 25 ~ 30, width 7 ~ 12), inner canthus spacing is significantly widened, nose back is low and flat. Some patients have small eyeballs, nystagmus, entropion and ectropion, strabismus and so on. If the pupil is covered too much, it can affect the visual development and show low vision.

Finally, the disease only surgical treatment, generally need to be divided into several operations, respectively, correction of eyelid fissure short and small, epicanthus space is too wide and ptosis. For the treatment of this disease, the current surgical methods only improve the appearance to a certain extent, the degree of eyelid dehiscence is limited, lack of eyelid eyelashes in large area, poor adhesion between eyelid and eyeball when combined with small eyeball, easy to appear lower eyelid lacrimal point Exodus and obvious scar of canthus angle after operation, etc.

matters needing attention

Congenital eye fissure small disease in the operation should pay attention to recuperation, especially to prevent infection, in peacetime to do hair waterproof work, in addition to pay attention to regular inspection to the hospital.