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Clinical features, etiological reasons, and treatment results in patients who developed acute acquired nonaccomodative esotropia

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Abstract

Purpose

To evaluate the clinical features, possible etiological reasons, and treatment results in children who developed acute acquired comitant esotropia (AACE) without strabismus in previous years.

Methods

Medical records of the patients who were diagnosed with AACE between July 2017 and June 2021 were retrospectively reviewed. The children with ocular and orbital pathology, hypermetropia > 2.00 diopters, and anisometropia > 1.00 diopters were not included in the study. Possible etiological factors that could cause esotropia, treatment results, motor, and sensory functions were investigated.

Results

The mean age at first admission, and the onset of AACE, was 8.8 ± 2.9 (4–13) years of three female (23.1%) and 10 male (76.9%) cases. The causes of AACE were determined to be occlusion of the eye due to corneal foreign body removal in one (7.7%), emotional stress in one case (7.7%), and excessive close work, on computer and smartphone screens in the other 11 cases (84.6%). Orthotropia was achieved in cases who underwent strabismus surgery (n = 10) and in cases using the prism (n = 2); except for one case, all (92.3%) achieved binocular single vision (100 s/arc stereopsis and fusion) after treatment, while there was no binocular single vision in any of the cases before treatment.

Conclusions

Acute acquired comitant esotropia is a rare clinical entity. Successful motor and sensory outcomes can be achieved by strabismus surgery or by prism therapy. It is critical to investigate the patientş with AACE in terms of intracranial pathologies, although rarely seen.

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Sefi-Yurdakul, N. Clinical features, etiological reasons, and treatment results in patients who developed acute acquired nonaccomodative esotropia. Int Ophthalmol 43, 567–574 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10792-022-02458-4

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