Esotropias that totally resolve under general anesthesia treated exclusively with bilateral fadenoperation.

Purpose: Fadenoperation has been proven to be an efficient method to treat convergence excess because it treats medial rectus (MR) overaction. We wanted to evaluate its efficiency in esotropias that totally disappear under anesthesia, regardless of the amount of deviation in waking hours.

Methods: Included were 122 successive cases of children of ages 3 to 16 years with esotropia that completely disappears under general anesthesia (GA), representing 26.