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Given concerns about cooperation, anesthesia, and predictability, under what circumstances do you use adjustable sutures in pediatric strabismus surgery?

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Under what circumstances do you use adjustable sutures in pediatric strabismus surgery?

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Ophthalmology · Boston Children's Hospital
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With only a few exceptions, I usually do adjustable sutures for patients with double vision (a little older, able to report diplopia well, and when diplopia makes sense and they fuse with prisms in the clinic) or unusual strabismus, where results might be less predictable, and I want to avoid any un...

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Ophthalmology · University of Illinois College of Medicine Peoria
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I no longer do adjustable sutures in pediatric patients.

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