[Treatment results of squint and incorrect fixation in infants].
OBJECTIVE
Analysis of the results of medical examination and treatment of infants with squint and undeveloped fixation reflex, and with nystagmus.


METHODS
215 babies with these distempers were classified to the treatment. The children were included into five prophylactic groups: group 1-66 babies with eccentric fixation and without squint or with periodic squint; group 2-60 babies with acentric fixation and with manifested convergent squint at a visual angle from 25 degrees to 45 degrees (average 35 degrees); group 3-55 babies with correct fixation and with manifested convergent squint at a visual angle from 25 degrees to 45 degrees (average 35 degrees), and with divergent squint at a visual angle from 5 degrees to 20 degrees (average 12.5 degrees); group 4-12 babies with correct fixation and with periodic squint; group 5-22 babies with nystagmus. The treatment consisted in wearing spherical and prismatic glasses strictly compensating the squint angle, and in the treatment of eccentric fixation with euthyscope irradiations. The babies with nystagmus were treated conservatively by prisms correcting head arrangement.


RESULTS
Eventually the squint angle reduced and fixation reflex in part of all tested groups. In our opinion, the treatment of very small children by localisation method prisms is very useful.
Litwińska
J
J
Katedry Okulistyki z Klinika Okulistyczna, Szczecinie.
D005139:Eyeglasses; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D013285:Strabismus / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome