We report blindness and total ophthalmoplegia after PMMA injection into glabellar area in a healthy woman and review the literature. Key words: polymethyl-methacrylate, facial injection, blindness, ...

A 68 year old woman developed oculomotor paresis shortly after metastatic progression of her melanoma was discovered. She was then immunised with the tumour antigen MAGE-3 in combination with an ...

Objective Clinical and immunological evaluation of ‘incomplete’ Bickerstaff brainstem encephalitis (BBE). Methods We studied two patients with postinfectious brainstem syndromes who presented at ...

Cardiac conduction in the kearns-sayre syndrome (a neuromuscular disorder associated with progressive external ophthalmoplegia and pigmentary retinopathy), The American Journal of Cardiology, 44 ...

Internuclear ophthalmoplegia (INO) is damage to the nerve fibers that coordinate both eyes in looking from side to side (horizontal movements). Vertical eye movements are not affected.

Q: My friends have noticed that my eyelids have become droopy over the last six months, and now I occasionally see double. I am only 29. I think my cousin had similar symptoms when she was my age ...

Causes of external ophthalmoplegia include chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia (CPEO), Kearns-Sayre syndrome (KSS), myasthenia gravis, botulism and other causes.

Cerebral venous sinus thrombosis (CVST) is a rare cause of strokes and is most common in younger patients particularly those less than 50 years of age. It is more common in females than in males and ...

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