Fixation switch: an unusual cause for adolescent and adult onset diplopia.
Sudden diplopia for adolescent and adult patients having childhood onset strabismus is an unusual occurrence. Recently, I examined three patients with a long history of strabismus and recent onset diplopia. All three patients acquired diplopia as a result of switching fixation from their normally preferred to their normally nonpreferred eye. Clinicians confronted with adolescent and/or adult patients having a long history of strabismus as well as a recent onset diplopia should consider a change in fixation as a possible mechanism.
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002648:Child; D004172:Diplopia / Q000209:etiology*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications