Aims The role of adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery has mainly been limited to conditions like dysthyroid restrictive myopathy, blow-out fractures of orbit, aberrant regeneration of nerves, and ...

The goal of strabismus surgery is to align the eyes to promote fusion, recover binocular vision, enlarge the field of diplopia-free vision, and restore normal eye contact. Despite accurate ...

Ophthalmologists may be one step closer to having a metric to measure improvement in visual acuity in both eyes after surgery to correct crossed or misaligned eyes, according to an article published ...

Surgeries for thyroid eye disease include orbital decompression (to relieve swelling), strabismus (to repair eye muscles and correct eye alignment), and eyelid retraction correction (to restore eyelid ...

Eye muscle repair surgery is a procedure that corrects a muscle imbalance in the eyes. The muscle imbalance causes the eyes to cross inward or outward. This condition is known as strabismus. People ...

With minimally invasive surgery, we can do strabismus surgery with topical anesthesia and correct small, even micro, deviations without adjustable sutures. The use of the grooved hook rather than the ...

A 6-month-old child comes in with a large angle esodeviation. The child’s parents provide a history of the ocular deviation occurring shortly after birth. The child is otherwise healthy. A cycloplegic ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Jennifer almost panicked when she heard that her 12-month-old daughter, Alyza, needed reconstructive surgery in her right eye to correct strabismus, a misalignment of the eyes, but she had done her ...

Strabismus surgery resolves diplopia or double vision in three fourths of senior patients aged > 80 years after the initial procedure, with the resolution rate increasing with additional surgeries.

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

A squint is when a person’s eyes do not align properly but look in different directions. People may also refer to it as “strabismus”. It often affects children but can occur at any age. Corrective ...