Eyelid Closure at Death

AIM: To observe the incidence of full or partial eyelid closure at death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The presence of ptosis was recorded in 100 consecutive hospice patient deaths. RESULTS: Majority (63%) of the patients died with their eyes fully closed, however, 37% had bilateral ptosis at death, with...

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Autor principal: AD, Macleod
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20668587
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.58454
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description AIM: To observe the incidence of full or partial eyelid closure at death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The presence of ptosis was recorded in 100 consecutive hospice patient deaths. RESULTS: Majority (63%) of the patients died with their eyes fully closed, however, 37% had bilateral ptosis at death, with incomplete eye closure. In this study, central nervous system tumor involvement and/or acute hepatic encephalopathy appeared to be pre-mortem risk factors of bilateral ptosis at death. CONCLUSION: Organicity and not psychogenicity is, therefore, the likely etiology of failure of full eyelid closure at death.
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spelling pubmed-29021092010-07-28 Eyelid Closure at Death AD, Macleod Indian J Palliat Care Original Article AIM: To observe the incidence of full or partial eyelid closure at death. MATERIALS AND METHODS: The presence of ptosis was recorded in 100 consecutive hospice patient deaths. RESULTS: Majority (63%) of the patients died with their eyes fully closed, however, 37% had bilateral ptosis at death, with incomplete eye closure. In this study, central nervous system tumor involvement and/or acute hepatic encephalopathy appeared to be pre-mortem risk factors of bilateral ptosis at death. CONCLUSION: Organicity and not psychogenicity is, therefore, the likely etiology of failure of full eyelid closure at death. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC2902109/ /pubmed/20668587 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.58454 Text en © Indian Journal of Palliative Care http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short Eyelid Closure at Death
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2902109/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20668587
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0973-1075.58454
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