BACKGROUND Hyperopic undercorrection is a common clinical practice. However, less is known of its effect on the change in refractive errors and emmetropization throughout the later years of childhood. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effect of spectacle correction on the change in refractive errors in hyperopic children less than 12 years of age with or without strabismus. DATA EXTRACTION A retro...

PURPOSE To characterize ophthalmic findings in patients with tetrasomy 18p, a rare chromosomal anomaly that has been previously associated with strabismus. METHODS All subjects underwent a complete eye examination to screen for ocular pathology. RESULTS A total of 25 subjects (13 female) were examined after they were diagnosed with tetrasomy 18p. The average age of subjects was 8.2 years (r...

PURPOSE To compare and evaluate the efficacy of two different surgical techniques for the treatment of near-distance disparity esotropia; combined resection-recession and recession-retroequatorial myopexy of medial rectus muscles. PATIENTS AND METHODS This prospective study included 28 patients diagnosed with convergence excess esotropia who had worn their full cycloplegic refraction and/or b...

The emmetropes and myopes were reported to have different monocular accommodative stamina at distance, but not at near. The purpose of this study was to further investigate the binocular accommodative stamina under natural binocular viewing condition. Methods: Accommodative stamina of 40 young university students was investigated over one-minute duration with a ±2.00 D lens flipper at 40 cm. Th...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prognostic factors affecting stereoacuity in patients with refractive accommodative esotropia (RAE) according to the results of long follow- up period. METHODS We reviewed the charts of 70 patients with RAE between the years 1985-2014. Patients were classified into three groups. G-1: Stereoacuity score 40 second/arc. G-2: Stereoacuity score >40 second/arc (50-3000)....