Dysthyroid optic neuropathy: atypical initial presentation and persistent visual loss.

Purpose: Dysthyroid Optic Neuropathy (DON) can lead to irreversible visual loss. We report risk features correlated with poor visual recovery despite an intensive treatment in a series of patients with DON.

Design: Retrospective analysis of a non-comparative interventional series.

Orbital cyst associated with ocular pit in an adult without microphthalmos.

We describe an adult without microphthalmos who developed an acquired compressive optic neuropathy secondary to an orbital cyst which showed direct communication with an optic disc pit. Such pits may be revealed by late complications such as orbital compressive cyst of the optic nerve, even in previously normal adult patients.

Successful treatment of idiopathic orbital inflammation with infliximab: an alternative to conventional steroid-sparing agents.

Therapy for orbital pseudotumor, also called idiopathic orbital inflammation, is nonspecific and mainly based on the use of corticosteroids. Two patients with steroid-dependent idiopathic orbital inflammation, one with myositis and the other with dacryoadenitis, and intolerant of standard steroid sparing agents (methotrexate or azathioprine), were treated with infliximab, a monoclonal antitumor necrosis factor alpha antibody. In both patients, orbital manifestations disappeared following treatment.

Complications of blepharoplasty.

The complications of blepharoplasty are infrequent, most often minor and transient, and rarely major and permanent with functional or aesthetic consequences. Treatment is above all preventive with screening of "at risk" patients in whom blepharoplasty would be contra-indicated. Patients must be informed of possible risks through informative booklets stressing the most important points.

[Evaluation of the surgery results of Müller's muscle-conjunctival resection in the treatment of blepharoptosis].

Objective: To evaluate the results of Müller's muscle-conjunctival resection for correction of blepharoptosis and to discuss the advantages of this procedure.

Methods: 38 patients (39 eyelids) were submitted to Müller's muscle-conjunctival resection. Blepharoptosis varied from 1.

[Graves' ophthalmopathy].

Graves' ophthalmopathy (GO) is a chronic autoimmune process that affects the retrobulbar tissue and has strong etiological links with graves' disease. Pathogenesis is incompletely understood. Symptoms include proptosis, extraocular muscle dysfunction, eyelid swelling and retraction.