Refractive Errors in Strabismic Patients: Fixing Eye Becomes Myopicl.
- Author:
Yong Han JIN
1
;
Yong Jai KIM
Author Information
1. Department of Ophthalmology, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University, Korea.
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
fixing eye;
myopia;
strabismus
- MeSH:
Anisometropia;
Eyeglasses;
Glass;
Humans;
Myopia;
Refractive Errors*;
Strabismus
- From:Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society
1991;32(2):190-194
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We examined 59 intermittent strabismic patients who were not alternate fixaters. Fixing eyes of these patients were found to be more myopic that the fellow eyes in 80% of the cases, and it was statistically significant(p<0.01). When both eyes were myopic and corrected with glasses, the more myopic of the two eyes was still used to fixate at distant objects(87%). Although neither the duration of strabismus nor the degree of anisometropia was found to be significantly related(r=0.336), we do suspect that myopia of the fixating eyes is causatively related to greaterer use rather than clearer image of certain distant objects without accommodation.
