Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Major articleDissociated vertical deviation in patients with intermittent exotropia
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Subjects and Methods
We retrospectively reviewed the records of all patients diagnosed with exotropia and DVD from 1996 to 2005 in our pediatric ophthalmology practice at the Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada, and Asan Medical Center, Seoul, Korea. The study protocol was approved by the Research Ethics Board of both institutions. Inclusion criteria were as follows: (1) a diagnosis of intermittent exotropia accompanied by DVD; (2) age of at least 5 years—required for obtaining reliable stereopsis
Intermittent Exotropia with DVD Group
Fifty-two patients met our criteria. Mean age at the time of DVD diagnosis was 8.0 ± 2.5 years and ranged from 5 to 15 years. Thirty-one children (59.6%) were female.
The mean age of strabismus onset was 12.7 ± 6.0 months (range, 3-24 months). The mean size of exodeviation in the primary position was 25.4Δ ± 5.8Δ (range, 14Δ-40Δ). Regarding the type of exodeviation, 37 (77.1%) children had basic exotropia, 3 had true divergence excess, 7 had pseudodivergence excess, and only 1 had convergence
Discussion
The results presented here suggest that DVD may develop in patients with intermittent exotropia, especially in those who have early onset of strabismus and poor stereopsis.
Intermittent exotropia is a strabismus disorder that has aligned phases interspersed with tropic phases.8, 20 In general, patients with intermittent exotropia, especially when the eyes are aligned, may have relatively normal binocular function.21, 22, 23 When the Titmus stereo test was used to measure stereoacuity in patients
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2021, Journal of AAPOSCitation Excerpt :There is little data with which to compare these findings. One prior study of exotropic children with DVD reported subnormal stereopsis (mean, 147 arcsec by Titmus; range, 80–400 arcsec) and poor control (spontaneous tropia without fusion disruption) in all 52 patients with DVD.2 Their findings were thought to be consistent with early-onset strabismus and monofixation status.1,2
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2014, Journal of AAPOSCitation Excerpt :The prevalence of DVD among patients with intermittent exotropia has been reported by Lim and colleagues,5 who found that patients with intermittent exotropia and DVD developed strabismus at a younger age than those with intermittent exotropia without DVD. It was further demonstrated that, when compared to the infantile esotropia group with DVD, the amount of DVD measured in patients with intermittent exotropia was smaller.5 However, no prevalence rates were reported, whereas the present study found a rate of 1.8% in children with intermittent exotropia.
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2012, OphthalmologyCitation Excerpt :In this study, half the patients with DVD were bilateral and the rest had DVD on the ipsilateral side of SOP. Dissociated vertical deviation occurs when normal binocular visual development is disrupted and when it is associated with nystagmus and horizontal and vertical deviations.21,22 Dissociated vertical deviation alone may cause head tilts, without significant oblique muscle dysfunction.23
Can the preoperative fundus extorsion in infantile esotropia predict the development of postoperative inferior oblique overaction and dissociated vertical deviation?
2011, Canadian Journal of OphthalmologyCitation Excerpt :Ocular alignment was measured and the development of IOOA and DVD was evaluated and compared between the 2 groups. The IOOA and DVD were determined with previously described methods.1,13 The patient was considered to have IOOA when elevation in adducted eye position was present.
The authors have no conflicts of interest to disclose