Korean J Ophthalmol.  2016 Feb;30(1):48-52. 10.3341/kjo.2016.30.1.48.

Comparison of Postoperative Exodrift after First Unilateral and Second Contralateral Lateral Rectus Recession in Recurrent Exotropia

• Kim EY
• Kim HK
• Lee SY
• Lee YC

• KMID: 2363890
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3341/kjo.2016.30.1.48

Abstract

PURPOSE
To compare postoperative exodrift of the first unilateral lateral rectus (ULR) muscle recession with the exodrift of the second contralateral ULR muscle recession in patients with recurrent small-angle exotropia (XT).
METHODS
We evaluated the results of a second ULR muscle recession in 19 patients with recurrent XT with deviation angles under 25 prism diopter (PD), following a first procedure of ULR muscle recession for small-angle XT. Recession of the lateral rectus muscle ranged from 8 to 9 mm. The postoperative motor alignment and degree of exodrift were investigated after the first ULR muscle recession and the second ULR muscle recession in the same patients.
RESULTS
Observed differences in postoperative ocular alignment between the first ULR muscle recession and the second ULR muscle recession were statistically significant at follow-up periods of six months (7.84 +/- 4.43 vs. 3.89 +/- 3.47 PD), one year (9.58 +/- 4.97 vs. 5.21 +/- 4.94 PD), and at a final follow-up (21.11 +/- 2.98 vs. 7.52 +/- 4.06 PD) after surgery (p = 0.006, 0.013, and 0.000). Postoperative exodrift was statistically different between the first and second ULR muscle recessions at three to six months (2.89 +/-3.75 vs. 0.63 +/- 3.45 PD) and one year to final follow-up (11.52 +/- 5.50 vs. 2.32 +/- 3.53 PD) (p = 0.034 and 0.000). All of the first ULR muscle recession patients showed XT with deviation angles of more than 15 PD at the final follow-up. Regardless, the surgical success rate (<8 PD) after the second ULR recession was 63.16% (12 patients) among the total amount of patients with recurrent XT.
CONCLUSIONS
This study shows that changes in exodrift after a second ULR muscle recession are less than changes after the first URL muscle recession among patients with recurrent XT. A second ULR muscle recession may be a useful surgery for small-angle XT patients with deviation angles of 25 PD or less after a first ULR muscle recession.

Keyword

Recurrent exotropia; Strabismus surgery; Unilateral rectus muscle recession

MeSH Terms

Child
Child, Preschool
*Exotropia/etiology/physiopathology/surgery
Female
Follow-Up Studies
Humans
Male
Oculomotor Muscles/physiopathology/*surgery
*Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures
*Postoperative Complications
Recurrence
Retrospective Studies
Vision, Binocular/physiology

Figure

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  Fig. 1 Average angle of exodeviation after first unilateral lateral rectus muscle recession and second unilateral lateral rectus muscle recession. I bars indicate 95% confidence intervals. POD = postoperative day. *p < 0.05.

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