The Effect of Intraoperative Adjustable Suture Strabismus Surgery in Adult Strabismus Patients

Kim, Dong Soo; Lee, Sung Ki

Abstract

We performed intraoperative adjustable suture strabismus surgery in monocular eye to evaluate the effectiveness of this surgery under topical and subconjunctival local anesthesia. We examined the deviations at postop. 1 day, 1 week, 1 month and last follow up in 25 eyes of 25 adult horizontal strabismus patients and follow up period ranged from 3 months to 6 months, average 4 months and analyzed the results of surgery dividing two groups(below & bove 50PD of preoperative deviations). The deviations at last follow-up in 19 of 25 strabismus patients whose preoperative deviations were below 50PD were below 6PD, therefore the success results were successful but in 6 patients who had preoperative deviations exceeding 50PD, the postoperative deviations were exceed 25PD and they were reoperated. Above the results, we think intraoperative adjustable suture strabismus surgery under topical and subconjunctival local anesthesia in monocular eye had successful results n patients whose preoperative deviations were below 50PD and there was no intraoperative, postoperative complication or overcorrection but we need more follow-up.