PURPOSE The aim of this study was to look for the response to strabismus images in the limbic network (amygdala, hippocampus, parahippocampus) of healthy volunteers and to compare it with their reaction to viewing normal eyes. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-one healthy volunteers underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS Functional magne...

To clarify surgical outcomes for 5 ophthalmic diseases in terms of vision-related quality of life (QOL), we sent a self-administered Visual Function Questionnaire-14 (VF-14) to patients 3 months postoperatively, and the VF-14 scores for the surgical outcome of strabismus were compared with those of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), cataract, glaucoma, and epiretinal membrane (ERM). Te...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical performance of the Pediatric Vision Screener (PVS) in children in a pediatric ophthalmology office setting. METHODS Seventy-seven subjects between 2 and 18 years of age received gold-standard orthoptic examinations and were classified as at risk for amblyopia if strabismus or anisometropia (>1.50 diopters) was present. Strabismus was subclassified as variabl...

BACKGROUND It has been our impression that adult patients with strabismus frequently delay surgical intervention. OBJECTIVES To determine the length of time adult patients waited before undergoing strabismus surgery and to determine the reasons why these delays occurred. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective survey of consecutive patients who delayed strabismus surgery for more than...

PURPOSE Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with strabismus is important in evaluating the clinical benefits of strabismus treatment. The purpose of this study was to translate the Adult Strabismus Quality of Life Questionnaire (AS-20) into Danish and evaluate its reliability and validity in adult patients with strabismus in Denmark. METHODS The AS-20 was translated into Dani...

Dangerous hyperkalaemia has been reported following administration of succinyleholine chloride (SCC) to patients with burns, 1,2 massive trauma, a tetanus, 4 and a variety of neuromuscular disorders. T M Recently, Tammisto, e t al., 8 reported increases in blood levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) following administration of succinyleholine in patients with strabismus and found them to be hi...

BACKGROUND Anomalous retinal correspondence (ARC) is a neural adaptation to eye misalignment in which non-corresponding retinal points are linked in the visual cortex to provide binocular fusion. ARC within the striate cortex would require that horizontal neurons link right-eye and left-eye ocular dominance columns (ODCs) separated by a distance in the cortex proportional to the angle of strabi...

PURPOSE To assess the impact of amblyopia, strabismus and glasses on subjective visual and psychological function among amblyopes. METHODS Questionnaires were administered to 120 teenagers with amblyopia (cases), with residual amblyopia after treatment, or with or without strabismus and 120 control subjects (controls) Cases underwent ophthalmic examination including cycloplegic refraction. Tw...

Background: This paper reflects an effort to recreate a modern analysis of a 1985 study on surgical outcomes of intermittent exotropia. Post-surgical results are reported as functional, motor, cosmetic, and unsuccessful. Modern optometric approaches to management of intermittent exotropia are also discussed. Methods: A literature review of 17 acceptable papers (dating from 1990-2011) on the out...

AIM To investigate risk factors associated with strabismus in children born prematurely. METHODS Prospective study of all children born before 32 weeks' gestation between 1 January 1990 and 31 December 1991 in a geographically defined population of approximately 3 million in the Northern Region of the United Kingdom. All children were examined aged 2 years by the same ophthalmologist and paed...