title: Succinylcholine as a predictor in strabismus surgery.
abstract: Succinylcholine was injected intraoperatively in 20 patients with congenital esotropia, before and after the surgical procedure. Regression analysis was performed to investigate the relationship between the awake pre- and postoperative alignment and the drug-induced ocular positions, under anesthesia. The postoperative succinylcholine-induced ocular position was found to be a highly significant predictor of the one week postoperative alignment (r = 0.98, p less than 0.0001). Further investigation may lead to an ability to predict the postoperative alignment intraoperatively.
mesh_terms: D000768:Anesthesia, General; D002648:Child; D004948:Esotropia / Q000601:surgery*; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000601:surgery; D011379:Prognosis; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D013390:Succinylcholine / Q000494:pharmacology*
chemical_list: D013390:Succinylcholine