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In this retrospective study based on 140 esotropic and 51 exotropic patients, the factors influencing successful outcome and response to strabismus surgery were investigated. Thirteen independent variables were chosen. The pre-operative deviation was found to be the only discriminant factor for early and late successful surgical outcomes in esotropic patients. For exotropic patients the visual acuity of the left eye was the discriminant factor for early successful surgical outcome. In esotropic patients the response to surgery increased with increasing amounts of pre-operative deviation. It was lower for patients with older age of onset and larger amounts of medial rectus recession. For exotropic patients the response to surgery was higher for larger pre-operative deviations. Eliminating possible sources of error when determining the pre-operative deviation will improve the predictability of the response to surgery and surgical outcome.
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Abbasoglu, O., Sener, E. & Sanac, A. Factors influencing the successful outcome and response in strabismus surgery. Eye 10, 315–320 (1996). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1996.66
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