purpose : to compare the psychosocial status before and after successful strabismus surgery on iranian strabismic patients methods : one hundred twenty-four strabismic patients, older than 15 years were evaluated between 2009 and 2010. they were asked to complete a questionnaire about their psychosocial experiences, before and three months after successful strabismus surgery. effects of strabis...

A little knowledge may be a dangerous thing, but there is another side to the picture, and even a slight knowvledge will reveal possibilities and make limitations clearer. The imore a man knows in any branch of medicine, the less liable he is to dogmatism, with its consequent errors and dangers. A knowledge of the nature and function of radiology, and its possibilities in diagnosis and therapeu...

OBJECTIVE Thyroid eye disease (TED), an autoimmune inflammatory process involving the orbital tissues around the eye, is the most common extra-thyroidal manifestation of Graves' disease (GD). Due to changes in the patient's appearance, TED is a socially and visually disabling condition with significant impacts on quality of life. The aim of this study is to assess predictors of strabismus, a se...

purpose: to describe three cases of exotropic mobius syndrome and to report outcomes of the surgical intervention. case reports: three patients including two boys and one girl were referred to our strabismus clinic. all had masked faces and non-progressive congenital bilateral facial palsy and dry eye. other abnormalities included large angle exotropia and bilateral horizontal gaze palsy. surgi...

IMPORTANCE Commercially available automated vision screening devices assess refractive risk factors, not amblyopia or strabismus, underreferring affected children and overreferring healthy children. Nearly half of affected children are not identified until after age 5 years, when treatment is less effective. OBJECTIVES To determine the diagnostic accuracy of the Pediatric Vision Scanner (PVS)...

INTRODUCTION A clinical audit of strabismus surgery in children in terms of functional and cosmetic outcomes helps improve the quality of services in pediatric ophthalmology. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcome of strabismus surgery and assess the satisfaction of the patients' parents with respect to the surgery outcome. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A study of an interventional series of cases that i...