Abstract

Objective. To identify current surgical techniques for correction of age-related upper eyelid changes in Asian patients through analysis of available information in scientific databases.

Material and methods. Available literature data were reviewed in the PubMed, Google Scholar and the Russian State Library databases. The inclusion criteria were clinical studies describing surgical correction of age-related upper eyelid changes in Asian patients and possible intraoperative and postoperative complications. There were 64 (100%) manuscripts including 30 (46.8%) ones devoted to age-related Asian blepharoplasty, 21 (32.8%) — blepharoplasty through subbrow approach, 4 (6.2%) — combination of techniques, 4 (6.2%) — blepharoplasty through supraciliary approach, 5 (8%) — upper eyelid lipofilling.

Results. The most common methods of surgical correction of age-related upper eyelid changes in Asian patients are upper blepharoplasty (several variations of techniques), blepharoplasty through subbrow approach, blepharoplasty through supra-ciliary approach, combination of techniques with lipofilling and/or excision of fatty hernias. The most common techniques are upper blepharoplasty with creation of palpebral fold and blepharoplasty through subbrow approach for excision of lateral hood-shaped overhang without palpebral fold correction. Blepharoplasty through supra-ciliary approach is less common since it does not allow