Improved sensory status and quality-of-life measures in adult patients after strabismus surgery.

Purpose: To evaluate the change in sensory status and quality-of-life measures in adults with long-standing childhood-onset constant strabismus.

Methods: Consecutive patients with childhood-onset, long-term constant strabismus were enrolled. Sensory status was examined with Bagolini striated glasses test and Worth 4-dot test.

Prevalence of neurological involvement and malformative/systemic syndromes in A- and V-pattern strabismus.

Purpose: To evaluate the prevalence of neurological involvement and malformative/systemic syndromes in A- and V-patterns with respect to other kinds of infantile concomitant strabismus.

Methods: A retrospective comparative study of 14,006 consecutive patients examined in the Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Unit at the Catholic University of Rome between January 2002 and February 2010 was carried out. A total of 2.

Measurement of retinal nerve fiber layer thickness, macular thickness, and foveal volume in amblyopic eyes using spectral-domain optical coherence tomography.

Although the changes in the anatomy of the visual cortex and lateral geniculate nucleus as the result of amblyopia have been well documented, retinal involvement is still controversial. Time-domain optical coherence tomography with an axial resolution of 10 μm has been used to evaluate retinal and peripapillary tissues in amblyopic eyes with contradictory results. Spectral domain optical coherence tomography has a greater resolution (5-10 μm) and can determine retinal layers more precisely.

A morpho-functional study of amblyopic eyes with the use of optical coherence tomography and microperimetry.

Purpose: To determine whether retinal nerve fiber layer thickness (RNFLT), macular thickness, foveal volume, macular sensitivity, and fixation in patients with amblyopia differ between the amblyopic eye and the fellow eye.

Methods: Optical coherence tomography (OCT) and microperimetry (MP-1) were used to evaluate patients with unilateral amblyopia. Patients were divided into 2 groups, those with strabismic amblyopia and those with refractive amblyopia.

Effect of vertical transposition of the medial rectus muscle on primary position alignment in infantile esotropia with A- or V-pattern strabismus.

Purpose: To determine the effect of vertical displacement of muscle insertions on the surgical dose-response relationship in patients undergoing bilateral medial rectus recessions.

Methods: Retrospective chart review of patients undergoing bilateral medial rectus recessions for correction of congenital esotropia with or without vertical displacement for A or V patterns. Patients were clustered into A pattern, V pattern, and "simple" (no pattern) groups.

Mydriasis induced by sub-Tenon's ropivacaine injection in patients undergoing strabismus surgery.

Purpose: To investigate the effects of sub-Tenon's capsule ropivacaine injection on pupillary diameter in strabismus surgery.

Methods: A total of 16 patients were randomly assigned to 2 groups. The ropivacaine group (R) received sub-Tenon's ropivacaine 1% (2.

Atypical presentation of a case of solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit.

Purpose: To describe a rare case of solitary fibrous tumor of the orbit in a child, clinically misdiagnosed as arterious hemangioma.

Methods: A nine-year-old child presented a hard-elastic palpable mass located in the right inferotemporal orbit. Computed tomography, orbital pulsed-wave Doppler and internal carotid artery angiography consented diagnosis of high-vascularization mass probably related to arterious hemangioma with feeder vessel arising from a branch of ophthalmic artery.