Convergent Strabismus

Voluntary unilateral convergent strabismus of either eye.

Case Report A male Hindu doctor aged 28 years reported on October 10, 1962, with the complaint of difficulty in reading (the letters appearing mixed together after reading for some time) for the past 8 years. He had had many pairs of spectacles, all for compound hypermetropia, without relief of symptoms. About 6 years ago, he had been advised to do convergence exercises, first looking at a dist...

Consecutive Exotropia after Convergent Strabismus Surgery—Surgical Treatment

Purpose: In this study the results of consecutive exotropia surgical treatment by using different surgical technics are presented. Methods: This study included 34 patients, aged 21 to 47 years (mean 27.9), who underwent medial rectus muscle advancement alone or in combination with medial rectus resection and/or lateral rectus recession. The mean interval between original surgery and surgery for...

Refraction changes in children developing convergent or divergent strabismus.

Strabismus and amblyopia were studied in a cohort of children born in 1979 or 1980 in the area of Västerås, Sweden. Forty percent of the children had participated in a voluntary eye examination at 1 year of age. All children diagnosed as strabismic and/or amblyopic between 1979 and 1988 at any of the three eye clinics in the area were included in this study. Strabismic cases were mostly detecte...

Convergent strabismus, macular foci and toxoplasmosis in monozygotic twins.

IN an earlier paper, one of us (Granstrdm) described a number of cases of convergent strabismus in monozygotic twins; both " concordance " and " discordance " occurred. Concordance suggests a hereditary genesis, but the latter does not exclude discordance (i.e., genotypical asymmetry according to Dahlberg's theory). A monozygotic pair of twins will be described, in whom, despite pronounced conc...

Convergent Strabismus in a Cat and It’s Surgical Treatment