Seema Qayyum, Zia Ur Rehman Khan.
A Survey of Infantile Esotropia, A common childhood problem.
J Surg Pak Jan ;6(4):31-3.

This is a retrospective study carried out at the Department of Pediatric Ophthalmology, The Children Hospital and Institute of Child Health, Lahore from June 1999 to October 2000. A total of 30 patients diagnosed as Essential Infantile Esotropia, who had no other associated ocular problem, were included in the study. The patients were divided into 3 groups according to age at presentation, the first group (patients in the age of 6 to 12 months) were 2396, 2nd group (between the ages of 12 months to 24 months) 496 and 3rd group between ages of 2 years to 5 years) 3096 Patients that could cross fixate were 4396, true alternators 2296, whereas those with right or left dominance pattern were 3596. Those with an associated medical problem were 53.396. Amblyopia therapy was required peroperatiuely in 36.696 and 6.6% needed glasses. Bimedial rectus recession (BRR) was performed in 66.60% and recess/resect 36.6096. Following BRR 66.6696 had orthophoric eyes, the rest had residual esotropia of less then 10 prism diopter Following recess/resect procedure 54.4096 were orthophoric whereas 45.5096 had residual esotropia of less than 10 prism diopter.

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