Type of Surgery
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Last updated: 02/17/2009
BOOKS
Dyer, J. A., and D. A. Lee. Atlas of Extraocular MuscleSurgery. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, 1984.
Good, William V., and Craig S. Hoyt. Strabismus Management. Boston: Butterworth-Hienemann,...
1996.
Roth, A., and C. Speeg-Schatz, eds. Eye Muscle Surgery. Lisse, The Netherlands: Swets & Zeitlinger, 2001.
Salmans, Sandra. Your Eyes: Questions You Have…Answers You Need. Allentown, PA: People's Medical Society, 1996.
von Noorden, Gunter K. Binocular Vision and Ocular Motility:Theory and Management of Strabismus, 5th edition. St. Louis: Mosby-Year Book, 1996.
PERIODICALS
Bosman, J., M. P. ten Tusscher, I. de Jong, J. S. Vles, and H. Kingma. "The Influence of Eye Muscle Surgery on Shape and Relative Orientation of Displacement Planes: Indirect Evidence for Neural Control of 3D Eye Movements."Strabismus 10 (September 2002): 199–209.
Mayr, H. "Virtual Eye Muscle Surgery Based upon Biomechanical Models."Studies in Health and Technology Information 81 (2001): 305–311.
Murray, T. "Eye Muscle Surgery."Current Opinion in Ophthalmology 11 (October 2000): 336–341.
Rubsam, B., W. D. Schafer, B. Schulte, and N. Roewer. "Preliminary Report: Analgesia with Remifentanil for Complicated Eye Muscle Surgery."Strabismus 8 (December 2000): 287–289.
Watts, J. C. "Total Intravenous Anesthesia Without Muscle Relaxant for Eye Surgery in a Patient with Kugelberg-Welander Syndrome."Anaesthesia 58 (January 2003): 96.
ORGANIZATIONS
American Academy of Ophthalmology. 655 Beach Street, P.O. Box 7424, San Francisco, CA 94120-7424.
American Academy of Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS).
OTHER
Olitsky, Scott E., and Leonard B. Nelson. Strabismus Web Book.
Kellogg Eye Center: Eye Muscle Surgery.
Pediatric Ophthalmic Consultants Webpage: StrabismusSurgery.
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Definition
Eye muscle surgery is surgery to weaken, strengthen, or reposition any of the muscles that move the eyeball (the extraocular muscles).
Purpose
The purpose of eye muscle surgery is generally to align the pair of eyes so that they gaze in the same direction and move together as a team, either to improve appearance or to aid in the development of binocular vision in a young child. To achieve binocular vision, the goal is to align the eyes so that the location of the image on the retina of one eye corresponds to the location of the image on the retina of the other eye.
In addition, sometimes eye muscle surgery can help people with other eye disorders (nystagmus and Duane syndrome, for example).
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Approximately 56% of all patients achieve results of 20/20 or better and over 90% achieve 20/40 or better (which is good enough to drive without corrective lenses in most regions).1 Those with moderate to high myopia (greater than 7 diopters) have a lesser chance of achieving that result. As technique and technology improve, the results continue to improve.
From: Eye Surgery Education Council
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