PURPOSE Intermittent exotropia may be decreased by stimulation of accommodative convergence. Once excessive accommodation has been related to myopia, our objective was to evaluate refractive errors changes in children under overcorrecting minus lens therapy. METHODS A retrospective chart review of 21 children with intermittent exotropia was performed. All patients were treated with occlusion,...

PURPOSE This study was conducted to identify the relationship between control grade, stereoacuity and surgical success in basic intermittent exotropia. METHODS This retrospective study involved 44 basic intermittent exotropia patients who underwent strabismus surgery and completed at least 6 months of follow-up. The 44 patients were divided into three subgroups according to their control grad...

In cases of extropia with an exodeviation angle over 50 prism diopter (PD), a 3- or 4-muscle surgery is a rational option. But, in patients with sensory exotropia, there is usually a strong preference for a monocular procedure to avoid surgery on the single seeing eye. Thus, we confined surgery to visually poor eyes, and performed a medial rectus muscle resection with a mean of 10.3 mm (range, ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to compare surgical outcomes of unilateral lateral rectus recession (ULR) and unilateral recess-resect (RR) for intermittent exotropia of 20-25 prism diopters (PD). METHODS In this retrospective study, ULR was performed on 82 patients and RR on 98 patients for the treatment of intermittent exotropia of 20-25 PD with a follow-up period of 24 months or m...

PURPOSE To analyze postoperative results of intermittent exotropia as a function of the difference in strabismic angles measured immediately and another time prior to the surgery. METHODS We reviewed the clinical records of intermittent exotropia patients who received surgery and had differences greater than or equal to 10 prism diopters (PD) between the last preoperative measurement of strab...

PURPOSE To investigate the association between concomitant esotropia or concomitant exotropia and refractive error in preschool children. METHODS A population-based sample of 5831 children aged 3 to 6 years was selected from all kindergartens in a representative county (Yuhuatai District, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province) of Nanjing, China. Clinical examinations including ocular alignment, ocular mo...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term results of 2-muscle surgery in children with primary large-angle exotropia, comparing 10 mm bilateral lateral rectus recession (BLR) with unilateral lateral rectus recession-medial rectus resection (recess/resect). DESIGN Retrospective case series. METHODS Eighty-six children with exotropia of ≥40 prism diopters (PD), who underwent the 10 mm BLR (BLR group)...

s of Annual Scientific Meeting of the Hong Kong Ophthalmological Society 2005 Clinical characteristics of intermittent exotropia in Hong Kong Flora HS Lau, C Yu, Dorothy Fan, Yip, Dennis SC Lam Hong Kong Eye Hospital Purpose: To describe the clinical characteristics of patients with intermittent exotropia at Hong Kong Eye Hospital. Methods: Prospective case series of 129 patients with diagnosis...