Spontaneous recovery in microstrabismus.

We recently discovered the first patients who demonstrated a total recovery from their microstrabismus. The prism 4-diopter test became negative and steroscopic vision achieved 40 sec. Also, the amblyopia was completely cured. All this happened spontaneously! The age of these children varied from 8 to 16 years. Being convinced that the cause of microstrabismus is the same as for any other type of convergent squint, we believe that what maintains the amblyopia in microstrabismus and the microstrabismus itself, seems to be the dynamic impediment of the uncontrolled accommodation in the amblyopic eye. In turn, the poor accommodation is maintained by the amblyopia.