Purpose: A silicone band was sutured anteriorly to the edge of the lateral rectus muscle neotendon during recession surgery in order to reduce and delay the reoccurrence after exotropia surgery. Methods: Collected data of 12 patients (8 males and 4 females), aged 7 54 years with diagnosis of constant manifest exotropia and mean angle deviation in primary position of 15,04 ̊ (sd 1,18) for near an...

OBJECTIVE To assess possible differences in the retinal nerve fiber layer (RNFL) thickness between children with strabismus and controls. This study also compared esotropia with exotropia cases, and dominant eyes with non-dominant eyes. METHOD 31 children with esotropia, 17 children with exotropia and 32 controls were studied. The peripapillary RNFL average thickness was determined in 4 diffe...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of acrylic refractive prism and Fresnel membrane prism on stereoacuity in intermittent exotropia. MATERIALS AND METHODS Stereoacuities of fifty-two patients (mean age, 12.4 years; range 6 to 45 years) with intermittent exotropia were measured using the Titmus and TNO stereotests, while they wore prisms of varying power on nonfixating eye or evenly on each eye. ...

BACKGROUND Patients with intermittent exotropia may have an increase in their angle of strabismus in the distance when the angle is measured either after 1 hour of monocular occlusion or while the patients fixate on a distant target outdoors. The hypothesis that surgery should be performed for this larger deviation has been suggested but not tested. OBJECTIVES To test the hypothesis that surg...

OBJECTIVE To study motor and sensory results of surgery for exotropia following botulinum toxin A injection to correct childhood esotropia. METHODS The medical records of 2445 patients treated with botulinum toxin bimedial injection were retrospectively reviewed to select patients operated on after 1 year of consecutive exotropia. We recorded age at onset of deviation, retinoscopic refractive...

PURPOSE To compare the success rates and stabilities of postoperative alignment between adjustable and the non-adjustable surgeries in the treatment of sensory exotropia. METHODS A retrospective analysis was performed on all patients with sensory exotropia who had undergone unilateral lateral rectus recession and medial rectus resection (R&R) between January 1998 and August 2005. Thirty-four ...

To provide an animal model of human exotropia, a free tenotomy of the medial recti was performed in two infant macaques. When the animals were old enough to record eye movements with video eye trackers, we measured their ductions, ocular alignment, comitance, smooth pursuit, fixation preference, and gaze stability. Partial recovery of adduction occurred in each monkey from spontaneous re-attach...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate two cases of intermittent exotropia treated by vision therapy the efficacy of the treatment by complementing the clinical examination with a 3D videooculography to register and to evidence the potential applicability of this technology for such purpose. METHODS We report the binocular alignment changes occurring after vision therapy in a woman of 36 years with an intermi...

© 2009 by the Iranian Society of Ophthalmology Published by Otagh-e-Chap Inc. 35 Purpose: To evaluate the role of orthoptic treatments in the management of intermittent exotropia Methods: In a retrospective study, clinical records of patients diagnosed with intermittent exotropia were reviewed. Patients with basic, convergence insufficiency (CI) and divergence excess (DE) types of intermittent ...

PURPOSE To compare the surgical outcomes between bilateral lateral rectus muscles (BLR) re-recession and bilateral medial rectus muscles (BMR) resection in recurrent exotropia. METHODS The medical records of patients with recurrent exotropia who underwent surgery for intermittent exotropia during the 6 years from January 2001 to December 2006 and followed up for more than 6 months were review...