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Case of the week 151  ( December 2013 )
Alternating
Exotropia


  This 5 year old girl started with an intermittent exotropia at age 2 years which gradually became constant and alternating in nature. The remainder of the eye examination is within normal limits. The child is otherwise healthy.


Alternating Exotropia
Many patients with alternating exotropia are likely to have intermittent exotropia as which became decompensated with age. All of these patients have nearly equal vision in both eyes, that is because each eye is taking fixation half of the time.

Preoperative diplopia testing is extremely important in the determination of what surgical management should be done. It helps in deciding if the patient should have surgery, what surgery should be done, and when to do it. The evaluation of postoperative diplopia also helps in determining the course of action—e.g., whether to wait and reassure, manage medically with prisms, or reoperate.

 Intractable diplopia after strabismus surgery in adults without previous diplopia is very rare. The diagnostic use of prisms prior to surgery may identify some patients who have little or no risk of postoperative diplopia, as well as a group of patients with a small but definite risk of intractable postoperative diplopia.

The prism adaptation test is a pre-operative diagnostic test to identify the potential for fusion and predict the risk of diplopia in patients without the potential for binocular single vision, before embarking on cosmetic surgery.

In a patient like this with XT ( 60 PD ), the surgical plan is BLR recession 7mm combined with one MR resection 5mm, this works good with me.


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