Akemi Wakayama1, Yukari Seki2, Rika Takahashi2, Ikumi Umebara2, Fumi Tanabe2, Kosuke Abe2,3, Fumiko Matsumoto4, Yoshikazu Shimomura2. 1. Department of Ophthalmology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osaka-Sayama City, Osaka, 589-8511, Japan. akemi-wakayama@med.kindai.ac.jp. 2. Department of Ophthalmology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, 377-2 Ohno-Higashi, Osaka-Sayama City, Osaka, 589-8511, Japan. 3. Kindai University Nara Hospital, Ikoma, Japan. 4. Kindai University Sakai Hospital, Sakai, Japan.
Abstract
PURPOSE: To examine the role of fusional convergence amplitude in postoperative phoria maintenance in childhood intermittent exotropia [X(T)]. METHODS: The medical records of 29 children aged 15 years or younger (mean age, 10.8 ± 2.4 years) and treated with monocular recession-resection for X(T) were reviewed retrospectively. The patients' fusional convergence amplitude (break point/total amplitudes), physiologic diplopia, and phoria maintenance (presence/absence of phoria maintenance and ability to maintain phoria) were assessed. The presence of phoria maintenance was confirmed by a cover test, and the ability to maintain phoria was quantified using the Bagolini red filter bar. Correlations of the amplitude size with the presence and ability of phoria maintenance were investigated. RESULTS: A significant correlation was seen between fusional amplitude (break point/total) and ability to maintain phoria at near and at far (break point: P < .05 at near/P < .01 at far; total: P < .05 at near/far). Neither the break point amplitude nor the total amplitude significantly differed between the patients with phoria maintenance and those without it (break point: P = .71 at near, P = .29 at far; total: P = .98 at near, P = .85 at far). Phoria maintenance correlated with the suppression of physiologic diplopia during phoria (P < .01). The deviation angle did not significantly correlate with fusional amplitude either at near (P = .58) or at far (P = .27). CONCLUSIONS: In childhood X(T), fusional amplitude plays a role in enforcing the patient's ability to maintain phoria. However, sufficient fusional amplitude does not guarantee fully functioning fusion if suppression is present during phoria.
PURPOSE: To examine the role of fusional convergence amplitude in postoperative phoria maintenance in childhood intermittent exotropia [X(T)]. METHODS: The medical records of 29 children aged 15 years or younger (mean age, 10.8 ± 2.4 years) and treated with monocular recession-resection for X(T) were reviewed retrospectively. The patients' fusional convergence amplitude (break point/total amplitudes), physiologic diplopia, and phoria maintenance (presence/absence of phoria maintenance and ability to maintain phoria) were assessed. The presence of phoria maintenance was confirmed by a cover test, and the ability to maintain phoria was quantified using the Bagolini red filter bar. Correlations of the amplitude size with the presence and ability of phoria maintenance were investigated. RESULTS: A significant correlation was seen between fusional amplitude (break point/total) and ability to maintain phoria at near and at far (break point: P < .05 at near/P < .01 at far; total: P < .05 at near/far). Neither the break point amplitude nor the total amplitude significantly differed between the patients with phoria maintenance and those without it (break point: P = .71 at near, P = .29 at far; total: P = .98 at near, P = .85 at far). Phoria maintenance correlated with the suppression of physiologic diplopia during phoria (P < .01). The deviation angle did not significantly correlate with fusional amplitude either at near (P = .58) or at far (P = .27). CONCLUSIONS: In childhood X(T), fusional amplitude plays a role in enforcing the patient's ability to maintain phoria. However, sufficient fusional amplitude does not guarantee fully functioning fusion if suppression is present during phoria.
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