Results of frontalis suspension surgery using Mersilene mesh
| CPEO = chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia; MRD = upper margin reflex distance. | |
| Total number of patients | 20 (14 male, 6 female) |
| Age range | 2–78 years |
| Total number of eyelids | 32 |
| Diagnosis | |
| Congenital dystrophic ptosis | 12 |
| Blepharophimosis | 3 |
| Congenital third nerve palsy | 1 |
| CPEO | 1 |
| Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy | 1 |
| Myotonic dystrophy | 1 |
| Ocular myopathy | 1 |
| Preoperative findings | |
| MRD (mm) | |
| Mean | 0 |
| Range | 0–1 |
| Levator function | absent to poor (0–5 mm) |
| Postoperative findings | |
| Minimum 24 months after surgery | n = 17 (26 eyelids) |
| MRD (mm) | |
| Mean | +3.4 |
| Range | +2.5 to+4.0 |
| Follow up (months) | |
| Mean | 32 |
| Median | 36 |
| Range | 1–69 |
| Good skin crease (minimum follow up 12 months after surgery) | 26/31 eyelids |
| Complications | |
| Lagophthalmos—initial marked | 5 |
| Temporary corneal exposure | 1 |
| Infection/granuloma | 3 |
| Exposure of mesh | 1 |