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...

OBJECTIVE To document the various clinical features of ptosis associated with monocular elevation deficiency (MED) seen in patients, presenting to the Paediatric and Strabismus Unit, over a period of 2 years. METHODS All patients seen with monocular elevation deficiency presenting to the Strabismus Clinic from January 2006 to December 2007 were examined and evaluated for presence of associate...

purpose : to report a new familial presentation of hypoplasia and absence of superior rectus in the form of unilateral monocular elevation deficiency case report : a 7-year-old boy was referred to our center (poostchi eye clinic) with a chief complaint of ocular misalignment in his right eye since birth. one of his siblings was a known case of unilateral monocular elevation deficiency and was o...

PURPOSE To report an effect of the full tendon transposition augmented with posterior intermuscular suture and recession-resection surgery, for the patient with monocular elevation deficiency (MED) and large exotropia. METHODS Interventional case report. Full tendon transposition augmented with posterior intermuscular suture and recession-resection surgery was performed for a 26-year-old male...

Background: Inferior rectus recession, Knapp procedure, partial tendon transposition, and combined procedure are different surgical procedures in the management of monocular elevation deficiency (MED). Only a few studies have been published on the management of this problem. In this study, we report our experience with patients with MED focusing on the indications and types of surgery in the so...

background: inferior rectus recession, knapp procedure, partial tendon transposition, and combined procedure are different surgical procedures in the management of monocular elevation deficiency (med). only a few studies have been published on the management of this problem. in this study, we report our experience with patients with med focusing on the indications and types of surgery in the so...

BACKGROUND Inferior rectus recession, Knapp procedure, partial tendon transposition, and combined procedure are different surgical procedures in the management of monocular elevation deficiency (MED). Only a few studies have been published on the management of this problem. In this study, we report our experience with patients with MED focusing on the indications and types of surgery in the sou...

Monoküler elevasyon defisiti (MED); paretik, restriktif ya da kombine etiyolojinin neden olduğu tek taraflı defekti ile karakterizedir. MED, konjenital akkiz başlangıçlı olabilir. MED'in vakaları sporadik olarak gelişir, fakat ikizlerde oluşan vakalar bildirilmiştir. Akkiz genellikle hipertansiyon, tromboembolizm, arterit gibi serebrovasküler hastalıklardan kaynaklanır. hipotropyanın sebeplerin...