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Aligning a non-seeing eye
is a legitimate undertaking using the dictum
‘every humans has the right to look like a
human’. Surgery should be restricted whenever
possible to the poorer seeing eye. A
logical choice for surgery would be:
1) Recession of the left lateral rectus 8.0 mm
with 1/2 muscle width down shift
2) Resection of the left medial rectus 8.0 mm
with 1/2 muscle width downshift
This
regimen will make the child slightly esotropic ,
In surgeries for aligning a blind exotropic eye
, I usually leave my patient with slight
consecutive
ET , this works good with
me guarding against recurrence of the XT
The downshift of both of the horizontal recti in
the left eye will have some effect on lowering
the hyper deviated left eye.
In this case it is wise
to avoid the left superior rectus because of
concerns about thin sclera as a result of prior
trauma in the area.
The inferior oblique is not the most effective muscle
to weaken for treating this kind of
hyperdeviation.
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