KOLOA, Hawaii — For ophthalmologists who want to learn about ptosis, it is “the hardest easy thing to deal with,” Eli L. Chang, MD, said at Hawaiian Eye 2023.
“Most of the work is done in the workup, but for some reason patients are really sensitive to having just a little bit of ptosis, so it’s the thing that’s probably the easiest surgery but the one that gets the most complaints for me,” he said.
The initial evaluation determines the route of therapy, and one step is to determine whether the cause is congenital or acquired.
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