Abstract:AIM: To evaluate the efficacy of various surgical techniques for correcting different types of senile blepharoptosis.
METHODS: From June 2008 to October 2011, 150 cases(164 eyes)patients with senile blepharoptosis underwent surgical treatment. Patients with severe blepharoptosis received frontalis muscle flap suspensio, patients with moderate blepharoptosis get levator palpebrae superioris muscle shortening and those with mild blepharoptosis underwent pleating of levator palpebrae superioris.
RESULTS: After 3-month to 1-year follow-up, 154(93.9%)eyes get satisfactory results and 10(6.1%)eyes obtained better results.
CONCLUSION: In order to achieve the best correction in patients with blepharoptosis, it is important that making objective and careful preoperative examinations, selecting appropriate operation managements according to the levator palpebrae superioris muscle strength, the degrees of blepharoptosis and combined with experience.
