EARLY SURGICAL-TREATMENT OF INFANTILE ESO TROPIA - PRELIMINARY-RESULTS WITH A GROUP OF 45 PATIENTS

Background The age for strabismus surgery remains controversial and th e various studies differ whether the results of residual angle and bin ocular vision may be better with early or late surgery. Different oper ating techniques for infantile esotropia have been proposed: recession of both medial recti, combined surgery on horizontal muscles, posteri or fixation on one or both eyes, posterior fixation with simultaneous recession, botulin injection. Patients Our study presents 45 children with congenital esotropia operated at a mean age of 18.5 months. The s urgical technique consisted of posterior fixation of both medial recti with or without simultaneous recession.