Reoperation for residual or recurrent esotropia was successful in over half of patients.
Surgical success of lateral rectus resection for residual and recurrent esotropia.
Assaf Tolkovsky … Oriel Spierer
International ophthalmology · Oct 2021
Purpose
To assess the surgical outcomes of reoperations for residual and recurrent esotropia.
Methods
Who underwent bilateral medial rectus recession as primary surgery and lateral rectus resection as second surgery were included.
55.6%
Results
55.6%
successful reoperation for esotropia in over half of patients
More results
The two groups were similar in the pre-operative amount of esotropia for distance and near.
On last follow-up examination, the amount of mean deviation was 1.9 PD esotropia (8 PD exotropia to 9 PD esotropia) in the success group and 11.2 PD esotropia (22.5 PD exotropia to 35 PD esotropia) in the failure group.
More results
In the failure group, 75.0% of patients were under-corrected (esotropia of ≥ 10 PD) on last follow-up examination.
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Conclusion
Strabismus reoperation in cases of residual or recurrent esotropia was successful in slightly more than half of the patients. Surgical failure was more commonly associated with undercorrection and less with overcorrection.
