Double-eyelid blepharoplasty incorporating blepharoptosis surgery for 'latent' aponeurotic ptosis. 2011

Jin Li, and Ming Lin, and Huifang Zhou, and Renbing Jia, and XianQun Fan
Department of Ophthalmology, Ninth People's Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, PR China.

Most of the patients who undergo double-eyelid blepharoplasty report satisfactory cosmetic results. However, it remains some complications such as the failure to create double-eyelid skin creases and the outcome of higher skin creases and asymmetrical upper eyelids. These complications may happen even when the surgery proceeded successfully and the septum was intact, which suggested that the aponeurosis could not been damaged. Between January 2008 and June 2009, 39 patients (51 eyes, 7.75%) who requested double-eyelid blepharoplasty were found to display 'latent' aponeurotic ptosis. In these patients, the aponeuroses were disinserted from the tarsus or attenuated and elongated. All of these patients agreed to undergo aponeurotic ptosis correction along with double-eyelid surgery, of which 34 (45 eyes, 88.24%) were deemed successful. We believe that the careful measurement of ptosis in cosmetic patients will help to identify patients with 'latent' aponeurotic ptosis. Incorporation of the aponeurotic reinsertion and minimal dissection into the blepharoptosis surgery will correct the 'latent' aponeurotic ptosis successfully.

UI MeSH Term Description Entries
D008297 Male Males
D009801 Oculomotor Muscles The muscles that move the eye. Included in this group are the medial rectus, lateral rectus, superior rectus, inferior rectus, inferior oblique, superior oblique, musculus orbitalis, and levator palpebrae superioris. Extraocular Muscles,Extraocular Rectus Muscles,Inferior Oblique Extraocular Muscle,Inferior Oblique Muscles,Levator Palpebrae Superioris,Musculus Orbitalis,Oblique Extraocular Muscles,Oblique Muscle, Inferior,Oblique Muscle, Superior,Oblique Muscles, Extraocular,Rectus Muscles, Extraocular,Superior Oblique Extraocular Muscle,Superior Oblique Muscle,Extraocular Muscle,Extraocular Muscle, Oblique,Extraocular Muscles, Oblique,Extraocular Oblique Muscle,Extraocular Oblique Muscles,Extraocular Rectus Muscle,Inferior Oblique Muscle,Muscle, Oculomotor,Muscles, Oculomotor,Oblique Extraocular Muscle,Oblique Muscle, Extraocular,Oblique Muscles, Inferior,Oblique Muscles, Superior,Oculomotor Muscle,Rectus Muscle, Extraocular,Superior Oblique Muscles
D001763 Blepharoptosis Drooping of the upper lid due to deficient development or paralysis of the levator palpebrae muscle. Ptosis, Eyelid,Blepharoptoses,Eyelid Ptoses,Eyelid Ptosis,Ptoses, Eyelid
D005143 Eyelids Each of the upper and lower folds of SKIN which cover the EYE when closed. Eyelid
D005260 Female Females
D006801 Humans Members of the species Homo sapiens. Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man
D000293 Adolescent A person 13 to 18 years of age. Adolescence,Youth,Adolescents,Adolescents, Female,Adolescents, Male,Teenagers,Teens,Adolescent, Female,Adolescent, Male,Female Adolescent,Female Adolescents,Male Adolescent,Male Adolescents,Teen,Teenager,Youths
D000328 Adult A person having attained full growth or maturity. Adults are of 19 through 44 years of age. For a person between 19 and 24 years of age, YOUNG ADULT is available. Adults
D012189 Retrospective Studies Studies used to test etiologic hypotheses in which inferences about an exposure to putative causal factors are derived from data relating to characteristics of persons under study or to events or experiences in their past. The essential feature is that some of the persons under study have the disease or outcome of interest and their characteristics are compared with those of unaffected persons. Retrospective Study,Studies, Retrospective,Study, Retrospective
D055815 Young Adult A person between 19 and 24 years of age. Adult, Young,Adults, Young,Young Adults

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