Squint Training

A Review of the Treatment of Concomitant Squint

REVIEWING a series of sixty-odd cases of concomitant squint upon which I have operated, two points were brought out very clearly 1. The high percentage of amblyopic eyes found due to neglect in starting treatment early and in carrying it out efficiently. 2. That the operation is as a rule successful and gives real satisfaction to the patient. Next, the value of orthoptic training (eye exercises...

استرابیسم متناوب روزانه ( Alternate day squint )

Surgical management of primary exotropia in Cameroon

AIM To assess the results of surgery of primary exotropia in Cameroon. PATIENTS AND METHODS This is a retrospective study of all patients operated for primary exotropia in the Reference Hospital, Douala-Cameroon, between January 1992 and December 2005. Each case was operated once. The preoperative squint angle was measured the previous evening to surgery and the postoperative angle one year a...

Use of miotics in squint surgery.

AFIER operations for convergent squint, a comparatively frequent result is that the eyes are straight for distance, but on attempting near vision, the squint reappears. It happens even after a full recession of both medial recti and after the fullest possible spectacle correction. This residual acconmmodational squint proves a great handicap to the full restoration of binocular single vision an...

Lefty Proteins Are Long-Range Inhibitors of Squint-Mediated Nodal Signaling

The regulation of signaling pathways by feedback inhibitors has become an emerging theme in the control of pattern formation during development. Nodal and Lefty proteins belong to divergent subfamilies of the TGF-beta family. Nodal signals promote mesendoderm induction in vertebrates, and Lefty proteins antagonize it. In zebrafish, Squint functions as a long-range Nodal signal during mesoderm i...