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Strabismus and ocular motility disorders — branching viva
Branching viva on childhood strabismus and ocular motility disorders: detecting a deviation with the cover test, deciding comitant versus incomitant, performing cycloplegic refraction and a dilated fundus examination, applying the amblyopia-first management sequence, and escalating the acute and incomitant red-flag presentations.
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Prompt
Outpatient clinic: a three-year-old with a three-month history of an inward-turning right eye that is now constant, an angle that is the same in every direction of gaze, reduced acuity in the right eye and a hyperopic cycloplegic refraction. The examiner asks: what is the diagnosis, which test confirms it and drives the first treatment, and what is the fixed management sequence — then branches to the amblyopia-first principle, to a second child with sudden double vision and an abduction deficit, and finally to a baby referred for a turned eye with broad epicanthal folds.
Opening question
A three-year-old has a constant inward-turning right eye, an angle that is the same in every direction of gaze, reduced acuity in the right eye and a hyperopic cycloplegic refraction. What is the diagnosis, which test confirms it and drives the first treatment, and what is the fixed sequence of management? [1] [5]
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- [1]Donahue SP Clinical practice. Pediatric strabismus. N Engl J Med, 2007.PMID 17347457
- [5]Lembo A; Serafino M; Strologo MD; et al Accommodative esotropia: the state of the art. Int Ophthalmol, 2019.PMID 29332227
- [6]Campos EC Why do the eyes cross? A review and discussion of the nature and origin of essential infantile esotropia, microstrabismus, accommodative esotropia, and acute comitant esotropia. J AAPOS, 2008.PMID 18550403
- [9]Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group A randomized trial of atropine vs. patching for treatment of moderate amblyopia in children. Arch Ophthalmol, 2002.PMID 11879129