Dr. Wagner has no financial or proprietary interest in the materials presented herein. doi:10.3928/01913913-20180212-01 What is the preferred deviation in the immediate postoperative period following surgery for infantile esotropia? This is a difficult question to answer, although many have tried. It is clear that the initial deviation may not be stable and may continue to change during the yea...

family studies suggest that there is a strong genetic component to the etiology of comitant strabismus. seven cases of a family in three consecutive generations found to have isolated comitant exotropia. this pattern of inheritance is highly suggestive of an autosomal-dominant mode with complete penetrance which is an unreported finding in this entity.   iranian journal of ophthalmology 200921(...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of improvement in the control grade of intermittent exotropia using part-time occlusion therapy on the final postoperative outcome. METHODS Control of intermittent exotropia was graded as good, fair, or poor in 89 consecutive patients with intermittent exotropia during their first visit. The patients were reevaluated after part-time preoperative occlusion therap...

INTRODUCTION AND PURPOSE This study examines the sensory and motor results in adult patients with large-angle exotropia treated with nonadjustable bilateral recess-resect procedures. METHODS A consecutive series of adult patients undergoing four-muscle surgery for exotropia ≥ 50(Δ) with no previous surgery were identified by retrospective medical record review. All patients had nonadjustable ...

BACKGROUND Refractive errors, strabismus, nystagmus, amblyopia, and cortical visual impairment are observed in 50 to 90 % of patients with cerebral palsy. Ocular abnormalities are known to differ according to cerebral palsy type, and spastic type has been reported to be more likely to be associated with ocular defects than the athetoid and ataxic types. METHODS A retrospective review of medic...