OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of and contributing factors for errors in strabismus surgery. METHODS Five hundred seventeen of 1103 strabismus surgeons (46.87%) completed a survey administered during the 2011 American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus national meeting or e-mailed to members of the association. RESULTS One hundred seventy-three strabismus surgeon...

Purpose. To evaluate the distribution pattern and changes of strabismus surgery in children based on the data collected from a local eye hospital in the south of China between 2006 and 2011. Methods. A retrospective analysis of all strabismus surgeries in children (<18 years) performed in the Eye Hospital of Wenzhou Medical University between 2006 and 2011 using the integrated information syste...

English surgeon John Taylor attempted to perform strabismus surgery in the 18th century. The field languished until, in Germany, treatment of strabismus by cutting an extraocular muscle was proposed by Louis Stromeyer in 1838 and performed by Johann Friedrich Dieffenbach in 1839. According to traditional teaching, there has never been any proof that anyone in the United States thought of the id...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effect of strabismus surgery on proptosis in patients with thyroid-associated orbitopathy. METHODS The medical records of 22 consecutive patients with thyroid-associated orbitopathy undergoing strabismus surgery were reviewed. Data pertaining to the number of muscles operated on, amount of muscle recession, prior orbital decompression, and exophthalmometry were evaluat...

To examine the link between binocular vision and binocular coordination of saccades we studied subjects with convergent strabismus since childhood with mild or no amblyopia: three subjects had small squint (< 10 prism D) and preserved peripheral binocular visual function with gross stereopsis; four subjects had larger squint (18-35 prism D) and no detectable stereopsis. A standard paradigm was ...

PURPOSE Comitant strabismus is a common pediatric ophthalmic disorder with both genetic and non-genetic factors contributing to its etiology. The aim of the current study is to investigate the phenomenon of a parent-of-origin effect, genomic imprinting, as a possible mode of inheritance in comitant strabismus. METHODS We performed parametric genome-wide MOD score (model-maximized LOD score) l...

PURPOSE The aim of this study was to look for the response to strabismus images in the limbic network (amygdala, hippocampus, parahippocampus) of healthy volunteers and to compare it with their reaction to viewing normal eyes. DESIGN Prospective, observational study. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-one healthy volunteers underwent functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). METHODS Functional magne...

To clarify surgical outcomes for 5 ophthalmic diseases in terms of vision-related quality of life (QOL), we sent a self-administered Visual Function Questionnaire-14 (VF-14) to patients 3 months postoperatively, and the VF-14 scores for the surgical outcome of strabismus were compared with those of patients with diabetic macular edema (DME), cataract, glaucoma, and epiretinal membrane (ERM). Te...

PURPOSE To provide reference data for the measurement of ocular alignment and of angles of strabismus with a new stationary photographic apparatus at near and at distance fixation; to verify quantitative relations between the data by comparing experimental data with theoretical predictions. METHODS Use of Purkinje I and IV Reflection Pattern Evaluation in conjunction with a new stationary pho...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical performance of the Pediatric Vision Screener (PVS) in children in a pediatric ophthalmology office setting. METHODS Seventy-seven subjects between 2 and 18 years of age received gold-standard orthoptic examinations and were classified as at risk for amblyopia if strabismus or anisometropia (>1.50 diopters) was present. Strabismus was subclassified as variabl...