How do you approach the timing of surgical intervention in intermittent exotropia?
Answer from: at Community Practice
Intermittent exotropia is typically a deteriorating condition due to deterioration of distance fusion. In order to follow binocular function at distance in these children, I relied on the distance vectograph. By the time they are exotropic for any significant percentage of time, binocularity has alr...
If the child alternates fairly well and there is no amblyopia, I monitor the strabismus every six months. There is no urgency to operate in these cases, and multiple measurements of the angle over time are beneficial. The frequency helps with the decision. If the eyes are exotropic more than 40% of ...
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at Jackson Eye Associates I trained with Ken Wright, and his rule of thumb w...