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SOURCES:
American Academy of Ophthalmology: “What Is Ptosis?” “Can pink eye cause droopy eyelid?”
Practical Neurology: “Ptosis.”
Cleveland Clinic: “Ptosis: (Drooping Eyelid): Management and Treatment.”
Graefe’s Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology: “Incidence and Risk of Ptosis Following Ocular Surgery: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.”
Clinical Ophthalmology: “Ptosis after glaucoma surgery” “Neurofibromatosis: an update of ophthalmic characteristics and applications of optical coherence tomography.”
Seminars in Ophthalmology: “Ptosis After Cataract Surgery.”
NYU Langone Health: “Types of Ptosis.”
University of Iowa Health Care (EyeRounds.Org): “A Primer on Ptosis,” “Self-Resolving Ischemic Third Nerve Palsy.”
National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke: “Myasthenia Gravis Fact Sheet,” “Mitochondrial Myopathy Fact Sheet.”
Genetics Home References (NIH): “Horner syndrome,” “Oculopharyngeal muscular dystrophy.”
Journal of Medical Case Reports: “Chronic persistent Horner’s syndrome in trigeminal autonomic cephalalgia subtypes and alleviation with treatment: two case reports.”
American Association of Neurological Surgeons: “Neurofibromatosis.”
CDC: “Conjunctivitis (Pink eye).”
Familydoctor.org: “Sty.”
American Stroke Association: “08 Ways to Help Prevent a Second Stroke.”
Columbia University Irving Medical Center: “Subarachnoid Hemorrhage.”
Cedars Sinai “Oculopharyngeal Muscular Dystrophy (OPMD).”
Mayo Clinic Heath System: “Diabetes and your eyes.”
Medicine (Baltimore): “Ptosis as the only manifestation of diabetic superior division oculomotor nerve palsy.”
American Family Physician: “Diplopia and Ptosis.”
Dermatologic Surgery: “Persistence of Upper Blepharoptosis After Cosmetic Botulinum Toxin Type A.”
Journal of the Neurological Sciences: “Apraclonidine in the Treatment of Ptosis.”