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The authors encountered 2 siblings who showed progressive ophthalmoplegia and bulbar palsy. The patients were studied with various laboratory aids and thought to be as oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy. The oculopharyngeal...
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy, one of the variants of chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia, is a disorder characterized by progressive bilateral ptosis, immobility of the eyes and dysphagia. We have experienced a...
The authors presented a family whose 4 siblings had been suffered from oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy of autoscmal recessive trend, with symptoms of progressive ptosis, external ophthalmoplegia, dysarthria, dysphagia and facial...
The oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is a distinct, clinically well-defined myopathy of later life inherited in an autosomal dominant fashion with complete penetrance. Blepharoptosis, dysphagia, lower leg weakness are the most...
Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy is a hereditary, autosomal dominant, slowly progressive disorder with middle age onset, major symptoms are ptosis and dysphagia mainly due to selectively involved levator palpebrae and the...
We recently encountered a Korean patient with oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy (OPMD). His major clinical manifestations were late onset bilateral ptosis, dysarthria, and dysphagia. Direct sequencing analysis of the PABPN1 gene...
PURPOSE: To determine the efficacy of frontalis sling operation with silicone rods in patients with compromised corneal protective mechanisms.
METHODS: The authors retrospectively studied 6 consecutive patients (7 eyelids) with severe...