Clinical Characteristics and Long-term Postoperative Results of Infantile Esotropia and Myopia

Abstract

Careful attention must be directed preoperatively toward reversing amblyopia and correcting refractive errors because persistent amblyopia at the time of surgery was associated with a higher percentage of unacceptable postoperative large-angle deviation. The conventional amount of recession or resection of muscles should be increased in high-myopic cases with infantile esotropia, because less effect is produced per millimeter of recession/resection initially and, in the long-term, the constant stimulus to accommodative convergence apparently causes recurrent esotropia.