Methods. The local institutional review board approved this study. Written informed consent was obtained from all the participants, including parents or legal guardians. Medical records and clinical photographs of 55 Korean patients with congenital ptosis who underwent corrective surgery were reviewed. Patients with the following conditions were excluded: neuromuscular diseases, blepharophimosi...

PURPOSE To describe a modified Fasanella-Servat procedure and nomogram for the correction of minimal amounts of ptosis. METHODS Retrospective review of this modified Fasanella-Servat procedure was performed on 118 eyelids in 86 consecutive patients over 2, 4-year periods by 1 surgeon (S.C.D.). The amount of tarsectomy was based on the amount of ptosis. RESULTS Mean pre- and postoperative ma...

PURPOSE To evaluate the results of levator resection in patients with myopathic ptosis. METHODS The medical records of consecutive patients who underwent levator resection surgery performed for myopathic ptosis between October 2009 and March 2013 were reviewed. Indications for surgery were ptosis obscuring the visual axis and margin-reflex distance ≤ 2 mm. Surgical success was defined as clea...

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 report a new technique in the repair of lower eyelid malposition using dermis fat as a posterior lamellar spacer graft. DESIGN Retrospective, consecutive, nonrandomized interventional case series. PARTICIPANTS Eleven patients who underwent surgical correction for symptomatic lower eyelid malposition using dermis fat as a spacer graft. METHODS Patients with symptomatic lower eye...

PURPOSE To determine if tangent visual fields gathered during assessment of superior visual field deficits caused by blepharoptosis and dermatochalasis offer good correlation to clinical exam in a time and cost efficient manner. METHODS Prospective, observational case series. Subjects included all patients referred to a single surgeon (CCN) who underwent surgical correction of blepharoptosis ...

PURPOSE To describe a modified surgical technique for blepharoptosis repair through a small orbital septum incision and minimal dissection, along with the results obtained in patients with coexisting dermatochalasis. METHODS A retrospective chart review included 33 patients (52 eyelids) with blepharoptosis coexisting with dermatochalasis, surgically corrected through a small orbital septum in...

PURPOSE To prospectively investigate the incidence of postoperative ptosis following trabeculectomy by comparing preoperative and postoperative margin reflex distance (MRD), and to analyze the clinical factors associated with ptosis. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients who underwent trabeculectomy with mitomycin C in unilateral eye between 2010 and 2012 were enrolled. MRD was measured before and 3 ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy and safety of customized orbital decompression surgery combined with eyelid surgery or strabismus surgery for mild to moderate thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO). METHODS Twenty-seven consecutive subjects who were treated surgically for proptosis with disfigurement or diplopia after medical therapy from September 2009 to July 2012 were included in the ana...

PURPOSE To assess the outcome of surgery in patients with a history of contact lens wear. DESIGN Retrospective, comparative interventional case series. METHODS A total of 419 patients underwent ptosis surgery during a 1-year period (2005-2006) at Moorfields Eye Hospital. Those included in this study had a diagnosis of aponeurotic ptosis and history of contact lens wear. MAIN OUTCOME MEASU...