title: [Improved fixation of unilateral suture operation of the rectus medialis muscle of the amblyopic eye].
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Strabismus surgery influences the retinal fixation positively, as described by Böhme, Ehrich and Cüppers. Fadenoperation (Posterior Fixation) of the medial rectus muscle allows a more specific approach. It reduces the influence of overadduction and latent-type nystagmus on the retinal fixation, which becomes more central and more controlled after such an operation.
  
  
  METHODS
  This effect is very marked in infants up to 2 years of age, but still significant in older children with intolerance for occlusion, and motility-dependent excentric fixation. About half of the 70 cases observed reached a useful fixation and acuity by "surgical pleoptics". With respect to the otherwise poor prognosis of these cases, this result can be regarded as favourable.
authors.affiliation: Klinik für Orth- und Pleoptik, Universitäts-Augenklinik.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: de Decker
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: de Decker
mesh_terms: D000550:Amblyopia / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis; D012683:Sensory Deprivation; D016896:Treatment Outcome
vernacular_title: Fixationsverbessernde einseitige Fadenoperation am M. rectus medialis des amblyopen Auges.