Adjustable sutures in strabismus surgery. A follow-up study.
Strabismus surgery with adjustable sutures of absorbable material was performed in 19 patients, aged 8-69 years, who had paralytic strabismus and/or were re-operated. The ocular alignment was assessed at 1 week and 3-12 months post-operatively. In 12 of the patients eye position was stable during that period. Eleven of them had good or moderate binocular vision. However, eye position changed over the follow-up period in about half of the patients with poor binocular vision. No evidence was found for any muscle repositioning by mechanical stress during suture absorption.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D013285:Strabismus / Q000601:surgery*; D013537:Sutures