PURPOSE To compare two sling designs (single loop or double pentagon) and a variety of suture material that was used in frontalis suspension surgery for correction of upper eyelid ptosis. DESIGN Retrospective, nonrandomized, comparative interventional case series. METHODS Medical record review of 99 patients (164 surgeries) who underwent frontalis suspension surgery for upper eyelid ptosis ...

OBJECTIVE Epidemiological data on ptosis are generally lacking in the developing nations. The aim of this study was to assess the seven years pattern of ptosis in a Nigerian Specialist Hospital, Kano North-West Nigeria. METHOD The records of patients' diagnosis as ptosis between 2000 and 2006 were scrutinized. Data such as age, sex, cause, socioeconomic status, side of ptosis and management w...

Purpose: To determine the prevalence of ptosis and its correlation with vision-related variables in Tehran population Methods: Through a stratified cluster random sampling, 160 clusters were selected proportional to the population of each municipal district of the city. All consented participants were transferred to the clinic and underwent thorough eye examination. Here we report the prevalenc...

A prospective study was carried out to estimate the incidence and severity of ptosis following cataract extraction and trabeculectomy. A postoperative ptosis of 2 mm or more was found in 6.2% of all cases. In this series the incidence of ptosis following surgery under local anaesthesia was greater than that under general anaesthesia. The aetiology and management of this complication are discussed.

IntroductIon Myasthenia gravis (MG) is an autoimmune neuromuscular disorder caused by anti‐acetylcholine receptor antibodies (AChR‐Abs) or other etiologies. Ocular symptoms were the first presentations in 40–50% of MG patients. Ptosis and diplopia were the most common symptoms of ocular MG (OMG). Limited studies demonstrated that patients presented with initial symptoms of only ptosis in 47%, o...

Myasthenia gravis is an autoimmune disorder affecting the neuromuscular junction. Ocular myasthenia gravis presents as ptosis with extraocular motility restriction and is prone to be misdiagnosed as third nerve palsy or congenital or aponeurotic ptosis. Juvenile ocular myasthenia gravis in very young children is difficult to diagnose and can be easily labeled as a case of congenital ptosis, the...

AIMS To characterise the inheritance of ptosis in one particular pedigree. METHODS The pedigree was analysed clinically and genetically to assess the mode of inheritance and to ascribe a gene locus for the condition. RESULTS Affected members of the pedigree have bilateral symmetrical congenital isolated ptosis, a condition which is linked to genetic markers on the X chromosome in this famil...

In patients presenting with eyelid ptosis the clinician considers a differential diagnosis of 3rd nerve palsy, Horner’s syndrome, mitochondrial myopathy, oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, levator dehiscence, myotonic dystrophy and myasthenia gravis. The presence of moment to moment fluctuation in severity of ptosis (fatigable ptosis) typically suggests a neuromuscular junction disorder of whi...