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Case of the week 130 ( August 2013 )
Consecuitive XT


  This 20 years old patient has a history of what appears to be congenital esotropia. She had a bimedial rectus recession at age 18. This resulted in an exotropia of about 25 PD.

Vision: OD 20/30, OS 20/30
Refraction: OD +1.25 
               OS +0.75


Post Operative

Many years of working on such complicated cases where prior surgeries were done ,  the surgeons are not known , the operative details are exactly unknown and the results are not good taught me it is best to deal with the patient more of less as a "new" patient.

Based on the above, this patient has  Rt. XT, the 2 MR are possibly recessed. 

These cases require decisions be made in the operating room depending on what is found and on the operative scinario.

I found the Rt MR is recessed 5 mm from the insertion, in such cases with minimal consecuitive XT ( 25 PD ), advancement of the previously recessed ms is almost sufficient
to manage the problem.


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