Clinical Features of Recurrent Intermittent Exotropia after Reoperation for Intermittent Exotropia

The clinical course of recurrent exotropia after reoperation for exodeviation.

PURPOSE To determine the clinical course of recurrent exotropia after a secondary operation for exotropia. METHODS The surgical results in 58 patients who had undergone reoperation for recurrent exotropia (reoperation group) were retrospectively investigated and compared with those of 100 patients who had undergone primary strabismus surgery only (primary operation group) using survival analy...

Type of the recurrent exotropia after bilateral rectus recession for intermittent exotropia

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to investigate the type of exotropia (XT) based on the distance-near (D/N) difference in recurrent XT after bilateral lateral rectus (BLR) recession to treat intermittent XT (IXT) to look into the possibility of secondary convergence insufficiency (CI)-type strabismus. METHODS A total of 121 patients with recurrent XT after BLR recession for basic-type and...

Consecutive esotropia following surgery for intermittent exotropia.

Variability of stereoacuity in intermittent exotropia.

PURPOSE Distance stereoacuity is used to monitor deterioration of intermittent exotropia (IXT), but variability of stereoacuity has not been studied rigorously. The purpose of this study was to assess the variability of stereoacuity over one day in children with IXT. DESIGN Prospective cohort study. METHODS Twelve children with IXT were recruited. Stereoacuity was assessed using the Frisby ...

Is initial overcorrection after surgical correction for intermittent exotropia necessary?

Many pediatric ophthalmologists have been trained with the strategy that an initial postoperative esotropia of 10 to 20 prism diopters following surgical correction for intermittent exotropia is a desirable initial outcome. This recommendation was suggested to apparently reduce the possibility of subsequent recurrence of exotropia. However, pediatric ophthalmologists who do unilateral recession...