Malaria-induced ptosis

PURPOSE: This study reports two cases of malaria-induced ptosis with surgical resolution. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 is a 27-year-old female with a past medical history of bilateral ptosis following childhood malaria. Case 2 is a 63-year-old male with left-side ptosis following adult-onset malaria. Both p...

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Autores principales: Grosinger, AlexanderJ., Bradley, ElizabethA.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930323/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33681531
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2021.101038
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description PURPOSE: This study reports two cases of malaria-induced ptosis with surgical resolution. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 is a 27-year-old female with a past medical history of bilateral ptosis following childhood malaria. Case 2 is a 63-year-old male with left-side ptosis following adult-onset malaria. Both patients required revision surgery but ultimately did well after surgical correction. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: Malaria-induced ptosis is a rare entity that should be suspected in patients presenting with ptosis following infection and treatment of malaria. It is unknown if the patients’ malaria results from malarial infection, antimalarial treatment, or a combination of both. Surgical correction is the mainstay of treatment.
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spelling pubmed-79303232021-03-05 Malaria-induced ptosis Grosinger, AlexanderJ. Bradley, ElizabethA. Am J Ophthalmol Case Rep Case Report PURPOSE: This study reports two cases of malaria-induced ptosis with surgical resolution. OBSERVATIONS: Case 1 is a 27-year-old female with a past medical history of bilateral ptosis following childhood malaria. Case 2 is a 63-year-old male with left-side ptosis following adult-onset malaria. Both patients required revision surgery but ultimately did well after surgical correction. CONCLUSIONS AND IMPORTANCE: Malaria-induced ptosis is a rare entity that should be suspected in patients presenting with ptosis following infection and treatment of malaria. It is unknown if the patients’ malaria results from malarial infection, antimalarial treatment, or a combination of both. Surgical correction is the mainstay of treatment. Elsevier 2021-02-24 /pmc/articles/PMC7930323/ /pubmed/33681531 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ajoc.2021.101038 Text en © 2021 Published by Elsevier Inc. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7930323/
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