Previous reports have indicated the usefulness of Io per cent. Guanethidine eye-drops in reducing lid retraction and relieving symptoms in patients with dysthyroid eye disease (Sneddon and Turner, I966; Gay and Wolksteip, I966; Crombie and Lawson, I967). Administration of these eye drops produces local irritation in about 50 per cent. of patients and, although this is rarely severe, superficial...

(a) Hyperthyroid or Thyrotoxic Exophthalmos.-This accompanies Graves's disease and is, therefore, much more frequently seen in females than in males. In the majority of cases the exophthalmos is quite unobtrusive or there is merely an appearance of exophthalmos due to retraction of the upper lid. It is associated with a decreased frequency of blinking and a fixed stare. The majority of authors ...

BACKGROUND Ocular involvement in HIV infection/AIDS is very common and it includes various clinical presentations which may be asymptomatic or atypical or they may be the initial manifestations of the underlying disease. The severity of these lesions increases as the immune competency decreases, leading to visual impairment or blindness. OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine th...

PURPOSE Although several reports of supernumerary orbital muscles related to the levator palpebrae superioris have been published, no case has been associated with congenital eyelid retraction. This report describes an apparent causal relationship between an accessory levator muscle slip and congenital eyelid retraction. METHODS Case report and literature review. RESULTS Release of the anom...

purpose: to report a case of cloverleaf skull syndrome with cleft palate. results: we report a 20-day-old boy with cloverleaf-shaped skull deformity, very constricted cranium and prominent temporal bones associated with severe proptosis, maked lid retraction, conjunctival chemosis, exposure keratitis, corneal opacity and cleft palate. ct-scan dislosed fusion of the coronal, sagittal and lambdoi...

purpose: to evaluate the prevalence and severity of ophthalmic manifestations of graves’ disease in the mashhad university of medical sciences endocrine clinics . methods: in a multicenter prospective-descriptive study, patients with graves' disease that were being followed in mashhad university of medical sciences endocrine clinics were recruited for the study, from december 2002 to septe...

PURPOSE Postblepharoplasty lower eyelid retraction is often due to scarring of the middle lamellae and/or vertical shortening of the anterior lamellae. Traditional reconstructive techniques involve a transconjunctival incision combined with a spacer graft. Other techniques involve a subperiosteal midface dissection or limited preperiosteal dissection. Elevation of the midface reduces the gravit...

PURPOSE To describe a series of patients with lower eyelid epiblepharon associated with lower eyelid retraction. METHODS We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent surgery for lower eyelid retraction, epiblepharon, or thyroid-associated ophthalmopathy (TAO) between October 1999 and March 2007. Patients with both lower eyelid retraction and epiblepharon on preope...

The hazards of synthetic implants and the difficulty of obtaining other autogenous or homogenous implant material may be avoided by using the tarsus from the upper lid of the operated eye as buckling material in retinal detachment surgery, especially in cases of localized detachment with one or more tears. After the adherent conjunctival material has been removed, the tarsus tissue can be place...