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Presentations and causes of blepharoptosis in Yazd, Iran
Journal of Research in Medical Sciences, 2006 BACKGROUND: Drooping of the upper eyelid (blepharoptosis or ptosis) is not an uncommon ocular problem. The causes of ptosis could be myogenic, aponeurotic, mechanical or traumatic. Detailed assessments of the cause, degree of ptosis and levator functions
Mohammad Reza Besharati +1 more
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Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles
Oman Journal of Ophthalmology, 2010 Background : Congenital fibrosis of the extraocular muscles (CFEOM) describes a group of rare congenital eye movement disorders that result from the dysfunction of all or part of the oculomotor (CN 3) and the trochlear (CN 4) nerves, and/or the muscles ...
Pascale Cooymans +3 more
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Retrospective Analysis of the Effect of Hering's Law on Outcomes of Surgical Correction of Ptosis
Annals of Plastic Surgery, 2017 Introduction Several factors may influence aesthetic outcomes of ptosis surgery, especially in patients with asymmetrical ptosis. We retrospectively assessed the effect of Hering's law on surgical outcomes of patients with asymmetrical ptosis.
E. Pan +4 more
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Acta Ophthalmologica, EarlyView.Abstract Purpose This study aims to assess visual outcomes in children born preterm, stratified by gestational age, hypo‐ and hypertrophy, and the presence of retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) and its treatment. Methods This is a prospective observational cohort study (n = 949, 1889 eyes) assessing visual acuity, amblyopia, refractive error, and lens ...
Achim Fieß +10 more
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Journal of International Medical ResearchDocumented cases of ipsilateral ptosis caused by midbrain infarction remain rare. Herein, we present a patient with isolated ipsilateral ptosis that was initially considered to be a consequence of myasthenia gravis but was subsequently attributed to ...
Xiao-Feng Cai +3 more
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Fetal-derived trophoblast use the apoptotic cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha-related apoptosis-inducing ligand to induce smooth muscle cell death. [PDF]
, 2007 Remodeling of the uterine spiral arteries during pregnancy transforms them from high to low resistance vessels that lack vasoconstrictive properties. This process is essential to meet the demand for increased blood flow imposed by the growing fetus. Loss
Aplin, JD +6 more
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Aarskog Syndrome: Deep Phenotyping and Genomic Landscape of a New Cohort Including Adult Patients
Clinical Genetics, EarlyView.This study presents the deep phenotyping data of 14 new Aarskog‐Scott syndrome patients with molecular confirmation. ABSTRACT Aarskog‐Scott syndrome (AAS, MIM#305400) is an X‐linked disorder characterized by recognizable facial features, short stature, and genitourinary and skeletal malformations.
Gozde Tutku Turgut +7 more
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Ocular Neuromyotonia—A Rare but Reversible Cause of Intermittent Diplopia
Movement Disorders Clinical Practice, EarlyView.
Parthvi Ravat +4 more
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Genetic and Structural Variations in Czech Patients With Congenital Myopathies
Clinical Genetics, EarlyView.We present 79 unrelated patients with genetically confirmed congenital myopathy (CM). A total of 113 mutant alleles carrying 97 different variants with a presumed pathogenic effect were identified. All but five variants were small scale. The mode of inheritance was autosomal dominant (AD) (44.3%), autosomal recessive (AR) (43.0%), and X‐linked (XL) (12.
Jana Zídková +26 more
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Progression of myopathology in Kearns-Sayre syndrome [PDF]
, 1992 We report on the progression of myopathology by comparing two biopsies from a patient with a Kearns-Sayre-Syndrome. The first biopsy was taken in 1979 and showed 10% ragged-red fibers.
B. Meurers +11 more
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