Diplopia after retinal detachment surgery

✍ Scribed by L. Maillette Buy Wenniger-Prick; A. Mourik-Noordenbos

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Year: 1988
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 218 KB
• Volume: 70
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0012-4486
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00154460

✦ Synopsis

In the Amsterdam Academic Medical Centre with an annual rate of 200 retinal detachment procedures, about the same incidence (4.5 %) of diplopia after detachment surgery was found as by . In 13 out of 18 patients with diplopia (sent for orthoptic evaluation between 01. 01.1986 and 31.12.1987) double vision could be eliminated by various ways: orthophorization with or without temporary prismatic therapy was seen in 3 patients; a compensatory head posture eliminated diplopia in two cases, and prisms were effective in 4 cases (one of them had additional squint surgery). In 4 patients strabismus surgery alone restored binocular single vision. Binocular single vision was not restored in 5 cases.