Effect of combining inferior oblique muscle weakening procedures with exotropia surgery on the surgical correction of exotropia.

ABSTRACT: PURPOSE:To determine whether the inferior oblique (IO) muscle weakening procedure combined with exotropia surgery affects the surgical correction of exotropia. DESIGN:Institutional, retrospective study. METHODS:We retrospectively reviewed the medical records of 310 patients who had undergone exotropia-correcting surgery combined with IO weakening (group A, 64 patients) or without IO weakening (group B, 246) with a postoperative follow-up of 6 months or more. The main outcome measures were the postoperative mean angle of horizontal deviation, the success rate, and the overcorrection rate. Surgical success was defined as an alignment between 10 prism diopters (PD) of exodeviation and 5 PD of esodeviation. RESULTS:The postoperative mean angles of exodeviation, throughout the follow-up period,

SUBMITTER: Bae SH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967796 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature