Predictive Value of Age, Angle, and Refraction on Rate of Reoperation and Rate of Spontaneous Resolution in Infantile Esotropia

Abstract

The benefit of early surgery for gross binocular vision is balanced by a higher reoperation rate and an occasional child being operated that would have had a spontaneous decrease into a microstrabismus without surgery. The fact that, in the ELISSS, hyperopia was associated with a decrease of the angle underscores the benefit of early refractive correction.