purpose: to evaluate the success rate of strabismus surgery with both adjustable and non-adjustable suture technique, moreover,also compared the success rate of these methods regardless of cause, type and amount of deviation is aand history of previous surgery. methods: in this study 296 patients were included (fromduring 2003 to 2011). patients divided in two groups; strabismus surgery with ad...

Adjustable suture in strabismus surgery is a way to get accurate alignment of the eyes after operation. This technique is used in cooperative patients, being either adults or children. We report the result of this technique in 120 patients, 70 with esotropia and 50 exotropia. The amount of deviation was between 20 and 60 prismdiopters. The patients were mostly adults and teenagers. and the...

adjustable suture in strabismus surgery is a way to get accurate alignment of the eyes after operation. this technique is used in cooperative patients, being either adults or children. we report the result of this technique in 120 patients, 70 with esotropia and 50 exotropia. the amount of deviation was between 20 and 60 prismdiopters. the patients were mostly adults and teenagers. and the youn...

OBJECTIVE To assess whether outcomes of strabismus surgery are improved by using the adjustable suture technique and to determine which subgroups of strabismus patients benefit most from the adjustable suture technique. DESIGN A retrospective chart review. PARTICIPANTS A total of 535 adults who underwent strabismus surgery between 1989 and 2010. METHODS Success was defined as ≤10 prism di...

PURPOSE To characterise the results of the largest patient series to date undergoing closed conjunctival delayed adjustable suture techniques. METHODS A multicentre retrospective review of 440 operations (patients aged 10-91 years) by five surgeons at four centres were evaluated for surgical outcomes associated with the delayed adjustable suture technique. RESULTS 26% (116 of 440) of all pa...

PURPOSE To describe an adjustable suture (AS) experimental model that allows for tightening, loosening and retightening of the suture tension in trabeculectomy. METHODS Standard trabeculectomy was performed in fifteen pig eyeballs. All pig eyes were tested twice: one test with conventional suture in both flap's corners (conventional suture group) and another test with a conventional suture at...

BACKGROUND Muscle slippage is an adverse outcome of strabismus surgery. Its incidence is increased if adjustable sutures are used or if surgery is performed on the inferior or medial rectus muscles. Although there are no firm numbers for this complication, studies have suggested incidence rates between 7% and 41% when adjustable suture surgery is performed on the inferior rectus muscle. In theo...

Strabismus surgeons continually seek to achieve the best results from their surgery, which means stable motor alignment and sensory improvement with a minimum number of procedures. But the tables and algorithms that we employ for the number of muscles to be included in the surgery, and for the doses of surgery, are often not appropriate for difficult or unpredictable cases. The ability to modif...

PURPOSE To clarify the efficacy of sliding-noose type adjustable suture strabismus surgery, we evaluated the accuracy of suture adjustment based on data from the initial postoperative examination performed 1-4 weeks after the surgery. METHODS Thirty-four patients with various types of strabismus participated [age range, 12-79 years; range of far deviation, 4-123 prism diopters (PD)]. Under su...