title: Stability of the Functional Cure in Congenital Esotropia.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To report the stability of the functional cure in a chart review of patients with congenital esotropia.
  
  
  METHODS
  The charts of 31 patients with congenital esotropia, encountered in 2007-2012 with functional cure, were studied. The stability of the cure and duration of follow-up were determined by comparing the first recorded date of cure with the date of the last examination. The mean age of the patients analyzed was 19.5 years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Two patients decompensated in the subgroup of 24 patients who did not require hyperopic correction and 1 patient decompensated in the subgroup of 7 patients who required hyperopic correction. All patients with decompensation were realigned by secondary surgery. A small subgroup of 4 patients demonstrated gradual improvement of stereoacuity to 60 arc seconds or better.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  The functional cure of congenital esotropia is relatively stable in patients within the first 20 years. The secondary use of hyperopic correction and secondary surgery increased this stability.
authors: Malcolm R
authors: MR
authors: Ing
mesh_terms: D000065:Accommodation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004948:Esotropia / Q000151:congenital / Q000503:physiopathology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular / Q000502:physiology; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009801:Oculomotor Muscles / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D013508:Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology; D055815:Young Adult