AIM To measure the drift of ocular alignment following strabismus surgery utilising adjustable sutures. METHODS 106 patients, aged 12 to 84 years, underwent adjustable suture strabismus surgery with a follow-up of 0.5-4 years (mean 24.3 months). RESULTS For all subjects measured on distant fixation, there was a mean undercorrection drift of 8.3 (SD 2.3) prism dioptres (PD) from week 1 to 48...

PURPOSE To determine a way to prevent the formation of adhesions and delay the time of suture adjustment in the course of adjustable strabismus surgery, an animal study was performed to assess and compare the effects of mitomycin C (Mit-C) and viscoelastic material Viscoat (sodium hyaluronate 3% and chondroitin sulphate 4%, Alcon, Fort Worth, TX). METHODS Right eyes of 47 rabbits were divided...

PURPOSE To compare the postoperative results of adjustable-suture strabismus surgery when suture adjustment was performed 8 hours (group 1) and 24 hours (group 2) after surgery. METHODS A retrospective clinical study was conducted in two hospitals. Strabismus surgery and muscle adjustment were performed in 90 patients. All patients had horizontal strabismus (40 patients had esotropia and 50 p...

Ma te ri als and Met hods: Y-splitting surgery. Amount of additional recessions varied with the degree of preoperative deviation by intraoperative adjustable suture technique. Preoperatively 3 patients had esotropia (ET), 6 had exotropia (XT), and 3 patients had orthotropia. The mean preoperative deviation was 19.3 prism diopters (PD) (range, 18-20 PD) in ET patients and 19.2 PD (range, 16-20 P...

PURPOSE New all-inside meniscal repair devices include those combining sutures with anchors and that allow for an "adjustable" repair. This study's purpose was to compare the failure strength of new meniscal repair devices with suture repairs. TYPE OF STUDY Experimental laboratory biomechanical study. METHODS A single repair was placed in a vertical longitudinal peripheral tear made in fres...

Anterior segment ischemia developed in a 62-year-old dysthyroid patient after two-muscle adjustable suture repair of vertical strabismus. Because of a quiescent pulmonary tuberculous focus he was not treated with systemic steroid therapy but rather with hyperbaric oxygen in the controlled environment of our hospital hyperbaric chamber. He tolerated this treatment well, and his acute symptoms al...

Erosion is an uncommon but feared late complication of adjustable gastric banding for morbid obesity. A high index of clinical suspicion is required, since symptoms are usually vague and nonspecific. Diagnosis is confirmed on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy and band removal is the mainstay of treatment, with band revision or conversion to other bariatric modalities at a later stage. Duodenal e...