Lindsay Curtis is a health & medical writer in South Florida. She worked as a communications professional for health nonprofits and the University of Toronto’s Faculty of Medicine and Faculty of ...

Purpose: To evaluate the effect of upper eyelid ptosis repairwith Muller muscle-conjunctival resection on meibomian gland function and ocular surface parameters. Methods: Thirty-eight patients who ...

Aim To calculate a regression formula for intraoperative lagophthalmos to determine the amount of correction in levator resection for mild to moderate congenital ptosis. Methods This retrospective ...

Laparoscopic surgery led to a substantial reduction in functional recovery time and postoperative hospital stay compared with open surgery in patients undergoing parenchyma-preserving resection of ...

A ventricular resection is a type of surgery that removes scar tissue or a tumor from a heart chamber to restore function. Often, a reconstruction or repair procedure follows this. The heart has four ...

Ventricular resection is a type of open-heart surgery to reshape and resize the heart. The surgery may help to improve survival in people with heart failure. Ventricular resection is a surgical ...

The largest part of the brain, the cerebrum, is divided into four paired sections, called lobes -- the frontal, parietal, occipital, and temporal lobes. Each lobe controls a specific group of ...

Long-term outcomes of ablation versus surgery in patients with colorectal lung oligometastasis: A retrospective cohort study. Time to target TIM-3 in colorectal cancer: TIM-3 expression to predict ...

Levator maldevelopment (dysmyogenic) ptosis is the most common type of ptosis seen in childhood and is caused by primary dystrophy of the levator muscle. Mueller's superior tarsal muscle is normal.

A modified levator resection technique effectively corrected moderate congenital blepharoptosis while minimizing residual lagophthalmos, undercorrection, conjunctival prolapse, and eyelid contour ...