AIMS To describe the eye misalignments that occur during heroin use and heroin detoxification and to give an overview of the management of persisting diplopia (double vision) which results from eye misalignment. METHODS A literature review using Medline and the search terms strabismus, heroin and substance withdrawal syndrome is presented. General management of cases presenting to the ophthal...

PURPOSE To compare unilateral versus bilateral surgical treatment of esotropia associated with high myopia. METHODS This retrospective study comprised patients who underwent surgery for esotropia with high myopia performed by the first author (Y.M.) between 2003 and 2008. Surgical results and complications were compared between patients who underwent unilateral versus bilateral surgery. RES...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the incidence of infantile esotropia from a defined population in the United States over a 30-year period. Recent reports from the United Kingdom have suggested that strabismus or strabismus surgery is occurring less frequently today than in previous years. METHODS The medical records of all patients diagnosed with infantile esotropia within Olmsted County, Minnesota,...

BACKGROUND The use of medial rectus pulley posterior fixation sutures to treat esotropia with convergence excess has limited support in the literature. We describe our results using this technique to treat patients with large near-distance disparities. METHODS We retrospectively analyzed records of patients with accommodative or partially accommodative esotropia and convergence excess 13(Δ) o...

Monocular and binocular grating acuities were measured using a swept spatial frequency visual evoked potential (VEP) technique in a group of fifteen infants with esotropia and alternating fixation. Both monocular and binocular acuity measures fell significantly below the mean for age-matched normals. Infants with esotropia and alternating fixation did not have significant interocular acuity dif...

Myelography and pneumoencephalography are invasive procedures with many complications. We report two cases of esotropia that developed 8 and 7 days after a Pantopaque myelogram and a pneumoencephalogram, respectively . Fortunately , the esotropia was temporary in both cases. This rare complication, of which very few radiologists are aware, was presumably secondary to the lumbar puncture perform...

Objectives: Manifest strabismus in children is a major cause of suboptimum visual experience with attendant impact on their development. This study aims to determine the pattern manifest among attending Paediatric Ophthalmology clinic University Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital, Rivers State. Materials and method: One hundred twenty-five (125) children, aged 6 months 18 years were ...

ABSTRACT Purposes: To evaluate the relationship of changes in hypermetropia and ocular alignment patients with accommodative esotropia. Methods: The medical records consecutive diagnosed refractive esotropia (esotropia eliminated or decreased to within 10 D full hyperopic correction) were retrospectively reviewed. Cycloplegic refractions culled from converted into spherical equivalents. Presenc...