Botulinum toxin as a tool for testing the risk of postoperative diplopia
If preoperative examinations indicate postoperative diplopia, we generally would dissuade a patient from a squint operation. In this situation, a reliable test for diplopia can be done by injection of Botulinum toxin into an eye-muscle. Thus a predominantly transient paresis is produced during which...
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| Published in | Strabismus Vol. 1; no. 4; p. 181 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Journal Article |
| Language | English |
| Published |
England
1993
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| Summary: | If preoperative examinations indicate postoperative diplopia, we generally would dissuade a patient from a squint operation. In this situation, a reliable test for diplopia can be done by injection of Botulinum toxin into an eye-muscle. Thus a predominantly transient paresis is produced during which there is parallelism for a sufficient period of time, so that the patient has time enough to experience disturbing double vision or its absence. In all 31 patients of this study a clear decision for or against an operation was possible, only in three cases was an operation contraindicated. |
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| ISSN: | 0927-3972 1744-5132 |
| DOI: | 10.3109/09273979309052369 |