OBJECTIVE To evaluate the surgical and functional outcome of congenital ptosis repair and the anisometropic changes after surgical repair of ptosis to determine the potential contribution of anisometropia to the development of refractive amblyopia. METHODS The clinical records of 162 children with congenital ptosis that had been surgically repaired between 1995 and 2006 at the Goldschleger Ey...

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...

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...

Myasthenia gravis (MG) is a disease of autoimmunity with variable and diverse clinical presentations. The target tissue is neuromuscular junction of skeletal muscles, where efficient nerve impulse transmission is hampered leading to less effective muscle contraction. Patients of MG usually present with bilateral ptosis, diplopia and fatigability, which may or may not coexist with generalised we...

how to cite this article: talebian a, soltani b, talebian m. bilateral ptosis as the first presentation of guillain-barre syndrome. iran j child neurol. winter 2016; 10(1):70-72. abstract objective guillain-barre syndrome (gbs) is the most common cause of acute weakness in children. it has multiple variant forms with different presentations. a rare initial sign is ptosis. in this study, we pres...

BACKGROUND The Regnault classification of breast ptosis is insufficient for determining surgical strategies for different stages of ptosis. OBJECTIVE A new clinical classification of breast ptosis is proposed that allows greater precision in the development of an appropriate surgical plan. METHODS Breast ptosis is classified in 1-cm stages, beginning with stage A at 2 cm above the inframamm...