background: drooping of the upper eyelid (blepharoptosis or ptosis) is not an uncommon ocular problem. the causes of ptosis could be myogenic, aponeurotic, mechanical or traumatic. detailed assessments of the cause, degree of ptosis and levator functions help determine the most appropriate management and treatment. this study was carried out to investigate the causes and presentations of ptosis...

BACKGROUND To present the outcomes of the tarsal switch procedure using an anterior approach to correct severe ptosis with poor levator muscle function (<4 mm) with absent or poor Bell's phenomenon. METHODS This retrospective case series included 11 patients with severe neurogenic or acquired myogenic palpebral ptosis. All patients underwent the tarsal switch procedure through an anterior app...

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BACKGROUND The clinical picture of blepharoptosis varies from a cosmetic problem to severe visual dysfunction depending on the pathogenesis and the degree of ptosis. OBJECTIVE To study the type, pattern and causes of ptosis in patients seeking oculopastic care in western Terai of Nepal Patients and methods: A retrospective descriptive hospital based was carried out over a period of 2 years in...

PURPOSE To report the use of tarsal switch levator resection procedures that lift the palpebral fissure to visual axis without causing corneal complications in patients with mitochondrial myogenic ptosis. METHODS Prospective study. The technique consists of an upper eyelid tarsectomy, with transfer of the autologous tarsoconjunctival graft to the posterior lamella of the lower eyelid. The sur...

Ptosis has usually been treated by surgery and the literature contains suggestions of over eighty different operations for its correction. Duke-Elder (I952) has pointed out that, in spite of the variety and ingenuity of remedial operations, the results are by no means invariably brilliant and in cases due to neuromuscular disease shortening of the lid is usually unsatisfactory. Apart from the c...

Aims: To describe the aetiology, demography, surgical management, and outcome of a cohort of paediatric ptosis patients in a large tertiary referral oculoplastic centre. Methods: A case note review of all patients undergoing ptosis surgery below the age of 16 years in a tertiary referral oculoplastic unit documenting the laterality, aetiology, severity of ptosis, indications for and type of sur...

Objective: To analyze the management of different types of ptosis of upper eyelid. Design: Descriptive Study. Place and Duration of Study: Eye department CMH Kharian, from January 2006 to December 2007. Patients and Methods: Thirty six patients having ptosis of upper eyelid, managed in eye department, were analyzed to find out frequency of different types of ptosis. Fifteen patients (27 eyes) w...