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What is Compensatory Ptosis?

asked 1 year ago by GeorgeTown in Oakland
Latest answer by Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD
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Tags: ptosis

What is compensatory ptosis? Can anyone explain? I don't have it, but I'm researching it and what to know exactly what it is.

1 answer to What is Compensatory Ptosis?

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Generally, we speak of compensatory eyelid retraction.

Dear NeverGiveUP Ewald Hering was a 19th Century ophthalmologist who observed that paired eye muscles receive equal innervation (Hering's Law).  This law helps us understand how eye muscles move the eyes.  This law applies also to the paired muscles that raise the eyelids.  The most common circumstance is when one eyelid is droopy or ptotic.  When this occurs, there is generally a compensatory drive from the brain to stimulate the levator palpebrae superior... more
Kenneth D. Steinsapir, MD

Los Angeles Oculoplastic Surgeon

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