A rare complication with methylene blue during a rhinoplasty

• Autor(a) principal: Flávio Barbosa Nunes
• Data de Publicação: 2020
• Outros Autores: Giancarlo Bonotto Cherobin, Alessandro Fernandes Guimarães, Matheus Santos Mazine Viviani, Letícia Paiva Franco, Isamara Simas de Oliveira
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Institucional da UFMG
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/1843/51667; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3179-8310; https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0479-4621; https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0461-8225
• topic: Rhinoplasty; Methylene blue; Corneal injuries; Postoperative complications; Otorhinolaryngologic surgical procedures; Nasal surgical procedures; Reconstructive surgical procedures; Rinoplastia; Azul de metileno; Lesões da córnea; Complicações pós-operatórias; Procedimentos cirúrgicos otorrinolaringológicos; Procedimentos cirúrgicos nasais; Procedimentos de cirurgia plástica

Surgical site demarcation prior to surgery is widely used in aesthetic procedures. In this report we describe a rare complication with Methylene Blue during a rhinoplasty. At a university hospital, the dye used for site demarcation prior to a rhinoplasty drained from the patients nose skin to her left eye, resulting in a corneal abrasion in immediate post-operative. Corneal abrasion by methylene blue is a rare complication, being described only in a few ophthalmologic surgeries, not yet described in rhinoplasties, a common surgery performed by otolaryngologists and plastic surgeons. This case aims to show a possible complication that may happen on the daily practice of otolaryngologists and plastic surgeons on facial procedures involving Methylene Blue.