Esotropia and Exotropia Preferred Practice Pattern®

Esotropia and Exotropia Preferred Practice Pattern®.

Consecutive exotropia following surgically corrected cyclic esotropia.

INTRODUCTION Cyclic esotropia is a rare form of strabismus consisting of regular intervals of esotropia alternating with periods of orthophoria in a rhythmic/cyclic manner. In the vast majority of cases, surgery appears to permanently correct the esotropia, with no sequelae after years of follow-up. We report a case of consecutive exotropia in a patient five years after bilateral medial rectus ...

Consecutive esotropia following surgery for intermittent exotropia.

Infantile esotropia: preferred postoperative alignment.

Wagner: This is a case of infantile esotropia. Six weeks following a 6-mm recession of the right and left medial rectus muscles in a 7-month-old infant with typical infantile esotropia findings and no vertical deviation at all, you find a residual esotropia of 12 prism diopters. Dr. Wang, what is your management at this time? Wang: Is the 12 diopters distance, near, or both? Wagner: We’ll say i...

OPTOMETRIC CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINE Care of the Patient with Strabismus: Esotropia and Exotropia