Abstract
Purpose
To analyse objective ocular torsion among patients with infantile esotropia and to determine the effects of unilateral horizontal rectus surgery.
Methods
Sixty-eight patients (136 eyes) (range 4 to 16 years) who underwent unilateral horizontal rectus surgery for infantile esotropia participated in this retrospective single-centre study. Objective ocular torsion using fundus photography was assessed before surgery and 1 year later. We defined three groups of patients based on preoperative qualitative objective ocular torsion: physiological extorsion and pathological extorsion and intorsion. For each group, the disc-foveal angle was measured and analysed both before and after surgery. We looked for possible correlations between amount of esodeviation and disc-foveal angle size.
Results
Preoperatively, 28 (41%) patients had + 6.73 (± 2.66) degrees of physiological extorsion. Thirty-one (46%) patients had + 12.94 (± 3.67) degrees of pathological extorsion. Nine (13%) patients had − 1.99 (± 2.52) degrees of intorsion. After surgery, the number of subjects with physiological extorsion increased to 45 (66%). The number of patients with pathological extorsion decreased to 17 (25%) and the mean disc-foveal angle was significantly reduced by 1.80°. Six (9%) patients presented intorsion and the mean disc-foveal angle was significantly reduced by 2.28°. For the pathological extorsion group, the size of the disc-foveal angle before surgery was positively correlated to its reduction after surgery. Disc-foveal angle variation and distance esodeviation variation after surgery were positively correlated.
Conclusions
These results highlight that pathological objective ocular torsion can be frequently found in infantile esotropia and is decreased after unilateral recession-plication surgery.
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Khanna, R.K., Pasco, J., Santallier, M. et al. Objective ocular torsion outcomes after unilateral horizontal rectus surgery in infantile esotropia. Graefes Arch Clin Exp Ophthalmol 256, 1783–1788 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00417-018-4027-4
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