Pontine stroke in a patient with Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia (CPEO): a case report [PDF]
Background Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) is a mitochondrial disease with slowly progressive bilateral ptosis and symmetric ophthalmoplegia due to a genetic mutation that results in defective oxidative phosphorylation.
Yazan Eliyan +3 more
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Mitochondrial Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia [PDF]
Background: Chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) is a rare disorder that can be at the forefront of several mitochondrial diseases. This review overviews mitochondrial CPEO encephalomyopathies to enhance accurate recognition and diagnosis ...
Ali Ali, Ali Esmaeil, Raed Behbehani
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Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia Diagnosed in the Glaucoma Clinic: The Importance of a Complete Clinical Examination [PDF]
Dimitrios Karagiannis,1 Loukas Kontomichos,1 Vasileios Tzimis,1 Efstratios Parikakis,1 Georgios Batsos,1 Michael Karampelas2 1Second Department of Ophthalmology, Ophthalmiatreio Eye Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece; 2Ophthalmology Department ...
Karagiannis D +5 more
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Congenital external ophthalmoplegia [PDF]
Sen D, Thomas A
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Double trouble progressive external ophthalmoplegia and Huntington's disease [PDF]
Josef Finsterer, Sinda Zarrouk-Mahjoub
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Progressive external ophthalmoplegia. [PDF]
Progressive external ophthalmoplegia (PEO), characterized by ptosis and impaired eye movements, is a clinical syndrome with an expanding number of etiologically distinct subtypes. Advances in molecular genetics have revealed numerous pathogenic causes of PEO, originally heralded in 1988 by the detection of single large-scale deletions of mitochondrial ...
Hirano M, Pitceathly RDS.
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Living with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia alongside cataract, peptic ulcer disease, diabetes and hypertension in Ghana [PDF]
Key Clinical Message This is the case of a 51‐year‐old woman with chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) alongside some comorbidities in a low‐resource setting.
Naa Adzoa Adzeley Boi‐Dsane +3 more
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Reply to: Double trouble progressive external ophthalmoplegia and Huntington's disease [PDF]
Massimiliano Filosto +1 more
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Acute Bilateral External Ophthalmoplegia in Miller Fisher Syndrome [PDF]
Miller Fischer syndrome is a rare entity characterized by the triad of external ophthalmoplegia, ataxia, and areflexia. It is thought to be a form of Guillain-Barre syndrome.
Feyza Calis Karanfil, Huban Atilla
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Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia (CPEO): Rehabilitation utilizing scleral contact lenses [PDF]
Purpose: To evaluate the use of scleral contact lenses in managing symptoms of Chronic Progressive External Ophthalmoplegia (CPEO) after failed conventional treatments. Observations: A 69-year-old female with CPEO presented with persistent discomfort and
Nir Erdinest +4 more
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