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...

BACKGROUND It has been our impression that adult patients with strabismus frequently delay surgical intervention. OBJECTIVES To determine the length of time adult patients waited before undergoing strabismus surgery and to determine the reasons why these delays occurred. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Prospective survey of consecutive patients who delayed strabismus surgery for more than...

PURPOSE Assessing health-related quality of life in patients with strabismus is important in evaluating the clinical benefits of strabismus treatment. The purpose of this study was to translate the Adult Strabismus Quality of Life Questionnaire (AS-20) into Danish and evaluate its reliability and validity in adult patients with strabismus in Denmark. METHODS The AS-20 was translated into Dani...

Dangerous hyperkalaemia has been reported following administration of succinyleholine chloride (SCC) to patients with burns, 1,2 massive trauma, a tetanus, 4 and a variety of neuromuscular disorders. T M Recently, Tammisto, e t al., 8 reported increases in blood levels of creatine phosphokinase (CPK) following administration of succinyleholine in patients with strabismus and found them to be hi...

BACKGROUND Anomalous retinal correspondence (ARC) is a neural adaptation to eye misalignment in which non-corresponding retinal points are linked in the visual cortex to provide binocular fusion. ARC within the striate cortex would require that horizontal neurons link right-eye and left-eye ocular dominance columns (ODCs) separated by a distance in the cortex proportional to the angle of strabi...

Abstract Background Acute acquired comitant esotropia (AACE) is a type of strabismus characterized by sudden onset large angle with diplopia, which often occurs in children after infancy, teenagers, and young adolescents. However, studies on the surgical outcomes only adults are rare. The purpose this article to analyze for adult patients diagnosed AACE. Methods Medical records 24 who had under...

PURPOSE To assess the impact of amblyopia, strabismus and glasses on subjective visual and psychological function among amblyopes. METHODS Questionnaires were administered to 120 teenagers with amblyopia (cases), with residual amblyopia after treatment, or with or without strabismus and 120 control subjects (controls) Cases underwent ophthalmic examination including cycloplegic refraction. Tw...

Background: This paper reflects an effort to recreate a modern analysis of a 1985 study on surgical outcomes of intermittent exotropia. Post-surgical results are reported as functional, motor, cosmetic, and unsuccessful. Modern optometric approaches to management of intermittent exotropia are also discussed. Methods: A literature review of 17 acceptable papers (dating from 1990-2011) on the out...