Healio

Surgeons prefer internal approach to ptosis repair

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . NEW ORLEANS — Michael G. Neimkin, MD, and Steven M. Couch, MD, FACS, presented the results of a survey of ...
Healio

Ptosis repair, blepharoplasty yield relief from tension-type headaches in upper eyelid repair

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Both standard upper eyelid blepharoplasty and ptosis repair were associated with improved headache-related ...
Medscape

Eyelid Surgery Has More Than Cosmetic Benefits

December 7, 2011 — Upper blepharoplasty and blepharoptosis repair are functionally indicated and beneficial, according to a report published in the December issue of Ophthalmology. Kenneth V. Cahill, ...
The Dispatch–Argus

Eye Surgeons Associates: What’s causing your drooping eyelid, will determine the treatment

Drooping eyelids are the most common reason new patients visit an oculofacial specialist. Due to aging, drooping lids can also occur from pregnancy or result from repeated injury or trauma, ...
Nature

Brow ptosis: are we measuring the right thing? The impact of surgery and the correlation of objective and subjective measures with postoperative improvement in quality-of-life

To assess the effect of brow ptosis on visual function and quality-of-life (QoL), and to determine what measures are associated with post-surgical change in functional status. Prospective longitudinal ...
Nature

Steroid-induced ptosis: case studies and histopathologic analysis

The purpose of this study was to review patients who developed ptosis after subtenon's steroid injection and to study the mechanism of steroid-induced ptosis in an animal model. Part 1. Twenty-two ...