title: Effects of tenotomy surgery on congenital nystagmus waveforms in adult patients. Part I. Wavelet spectral analysis.
abstract: Congenital nystagmus (CN) is an aperiodic oscillatory eye movement disorder. Horizontal rectus tenotomy with simple re-attachment has been proposed as a therapy for CN. This therapy might affect vision and/or eye movements. Another paper deals with improvements in visual acuity. This and the companion paper examine changes in eye movements. In this study, we examined the effect of tenotomy on nystagmus waveforms using wavelet spectral analysis. No common effect was found across the patients on the wavelet spectra of the CN beat, suggesting that tenotomy surgery has no effect, or only a quite small effect, on the waveform structure of CN.
authors.affiliation: Laboratory of Sensorimotor Research, National Eye Institute, National Institutes of Health, Bldg 49, Rm 2A50, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
authors.forename: Kenichiro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Miura
authors.forename: Richard W
authors.initials: RW
authors.lastname: Hertle
authors.forename: Edmond J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: FitzGibbon
authors.forename: Lance M
authors.initials: LM
authors.lastname: Optican
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D004585:Electrooculography; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D020417:Nystagmus, Congenital / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000601:surgery*; D012815:Signal Processing, Computer-Assisted