title: Strabismus presenting after cataract surgery.
abstract: Strabismus presenting after cataract surgery is etiologically related to a heterogenous group of disorders. Clinical data from 63 patients so affected revealed four broad etiologic categories: 1) pre-existing disorders that preceded the cataract surgery, but were rendered asymptomatic by the occluding cataract (e.g., thyroid eye disease, cranial nerve palsy, myasthenia); 2) disorders precipitated by prolonged occlusion by a cataract (e.g., sensory deviations, decompensation of heterophorias, and central disruption of binocular vision); 3) disorders resulting from surgical trauma to extraocular muscles and orbital soft tissues. Traumatic injury to the inferior rectus muscle secondary to retrobulbar anesthesia injection, a specific subset, is postulated to result from a Volkmann's type ischemic contracture, a well-known osseofascial compartment syndrome occurring in peripheral skeletal muscles. 4) Disorders related to resulting aphakia/pseudophakia and associated optical aberrations (e.g.; anisophoria, ocular dominance reversal, and color/brightness disparity). The diagnostic and therapeutic implications of these findings are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine.
authors.forename: L M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Hamed
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000009:adverse effects*; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013285:Strabismus / Q000209:etiology*