Successful Orthoptic Therapy for a Case of Accommodation Disorder and Convergence Spasm: Case Report.

We report improved symptoms in an adult patient with accommodation disorder and convergence spasm following a combination of in-clinic and at-home orthoptic therapies, including vergence training, non-prism spectacles to relax accommodation, cycloplegic eye drops, and anti-suppression exercises.

[Intraoperative adjustable strabismus surgery under drop anesthesia in patients with Graves' orbitopathy].

Purpose: To report the clinical features of strabismus associated with Graves' orbitopathy, and the results of surgery with adjustable suture under drop anesthesia.

Methods: The charts of 13 patients who had surgical treatment for strabismus related to Graves' orbitopathy at Hospital das Clínicas of University of São Paulo were retrospectively reviewed. Ocular motility, sensorial examination and the follow-up after strabismus correction were studied.

[Simplified intraoperative adjustable suture technique for horizontal strabismus surgery: a study of 153 cases].

Purpose: To evaluate the simplified intraoperative adjustable suture technique for horizontal strabismus surgery.

Methods: Data charts of all patients who underwent horizontal strabismus surgery by the simplified intraoperative adjustable suture technique at the Strabismus Department of the "Hospital das Clínicas" of the University of São Paulo in the period from January 2001 to November 2005 were evaluated retrospectively. Using this technique, the adjustment was calculated based on the corneal light reflection, having considered the difference between the measures in the awake state and with the anesthetized patient.

[Ophthalmomyiasis as a cause of canalicular lesion].

Objective: Myiasis is the invasion of human tissues by Diptera larvae. Ocular involvement is uncommon. Trauma is the major cause of lacrimal apparatus lesions.