purpose: to evaluate the clinical findings and surgical management of patients with congenital unilateral double elevator palsy (dep) or monocular elevation deficiency (med) methods: in a non-comparative interventional case series, 27 consecutive cases of dep were studied. hypotropia, elevation deficiency, and pseudoptosis were corrected by knapp or callahan procedure with or without inferior r...

Cases of congenital ptosis are rare, that too occurring in twins. We presenting a case mono zygotic twins with bilateral fibrosis extraocular muscles (CFEOM). A 5-year-old boy child and his twin brother who monozygotic presented ptosis. Both children had been diagnosed as having Parents have refused surgical intervention for the muscle weakness. They were advised, if complained any visual abnor...

Isolated unilateral congenital ptosis is encountered relatively infrequently in clinical practice. It typically consists of a unilateral droopy eyelid, weak levator palpebrae superioris muscle function, lid lag, and an absent upper lid crease with no other abnormalities on examination. We present a four-and-a-half-year-old girl with isolated and mild unilateral congenital ptosis who unexpectedl...

PURPOSE To assess outcomes of levator resection for the surgical correction of congenital and acquired upper lid ptosis in patients with fair to good levator function and evaluation of the relationship between demographic data and success of this operation. METHODS In a retrospective study, medical records of patients with blepharoptosis who had undergone levator resection over a 10-year peri...

BACKGROUND Ptosis is an abnormally low position of the upper eyelid. Congenital ptosis should be corrected in early years of childhood. The aim of this study was to assess the efficacy and complications of frontalis suspension using silicon tube for simple congenital blepharoptosis with poor levator function. METHODS A prospective study was performed on 33 children who underwent frontalis sus...

PURPOSE To evaluate the clinical outcome of frontalis sling operation using preserved fascia lata with modified direct tarsal fixation in congenital ptosis patients. METHODS Forty-seven congenital ptosis patients (60 eyes) who underwent a frontalis sling operation using preserved fascia lata with modified direct tarsal fixation method between March 2001 and December 2008 with a mean follow-up...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of lash ptosis (LP) in eyes with congenital and acquired blepharoptosis. METHODS We retrospectively graded photographs of 228 eyes from 174 patients with congenital or acquired blepharoptosis for LP. We used a 4-point rating scale for LP, in which 0 indicates no LP; 1, minimal; 2, moderate; and 3, severe. A prospective evaluation of LP in 30 eyes from 15 ...