An Evaluation of Success Rate of Endoscopic Endonasal Dacryocystorhinostomy at Tertiary Care Hospital

Abstract

Objective: To evaluate the success rate of endoscopic endonasal dacryocystorhinostomy at tertiary care hospital. Material and methods: Between July 2020 to December 2020, total 50 patients having age between 20-60 years, both gender, cases of epiphora, cases with evidence of obstruction were recruited from Department of ENT, DG Khan Medical Collge, DG Khan. Success of DCR was evaluated. Results: Fifty cases were selected for this study. Age range was 20-40 years with mean age 38.80 ± 8.74 years. DCR was successful in 47 (94%) patients while in 3 (6%) patients surgery was not successful. Male patients were 35 (70%) while female patients were 15 (30%). Surgical success was noted in 33 (94.29%) male patients and 14 (93.33%) female patients. Insignificant (P = 1.00) association between surgical success and gender was noted. Conclusion: In this study high success rate of DCR was noted. Males were prominent. Most of the patients were between 20-40 years and no association of success of surgery with age group and gender found. Keywords: Dacryocystorhinostomy, Epiphora, Intubation, Chronic dacryocystitis