SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INTERMITTENT EXOTROPIA

97th DOG Annual Meeting 1999

K6
SURGICAL TREATMENT OF INTERMITTENT EXOTROPIA

A. M. Dewaidar, I. El Bably, A. Karamani

The intermttent exotropia is chracterized by the presence of a period of fusion and binocular vision during the state of allignment alternating with a period of supression during the state of exodeviation.

The surgical results of 190 patients with intermittent exotropia treated via
1-Bimedial resection
2-Bilateral recession
3-Resection -recession on the deviating eye
and having at least 5 years of follow-up are reviewed. These data are analyzed from a standpoint of deferent parameters. The initial surgical results were satisfactoryin all patients. At the last follow-up visit 75% of the patients after bimedial resection and 69% of the patients with the recession-resection technique showed satisfactory results

The undercorrection was higher (60 in the patients after bilateral recti-recession at the last follow-up visit.

Universit Eye Hospital, El-Raml Station, Alexandria, Egypt

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