Emotional factors in strabismus.
Emotional disturbance may cause strabismus which disappears when the disturbance is relieved. It is frequently the cause of a deterioration in the control of an esotropia particularly that associated with a high AC/A ratio. Two cases are reported. In the first, a concomitant esotropia was present in an adult with paranoid schizophrenia. This resolved completely after psychiatric treatment. The second case resembled a lateral rectus palsy. This also resolved on psychiatric treatment.
D000328:Adult; D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000150:complications*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D012563:Schizophrenia, Paranoid / Q000150:complications; D013285:Strabismus / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology*