ArticleJournal of clinical medicine2023
The Effects of Orthoptic Therapy on the Surgical Outcome in Children with Intermittent Exotropia: Randomised Controlled Clinical Trial.
Article in Journal of clinical medicine, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Virtual Reality-Based Vision Therapy for Intermittent Exotropia: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA network open · 2026Trial
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- Effects of Home-Based Antisuppression and Binocular Integration Training in Patients with Intermittent Exotropia: A Retrospective Study.Clinical ophthalmology (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2026Article
- Binocular Eye Alignment Monitor (BEAM): Home Monitoring Proof-of-Concept Device to Quantify Binocular Alignment for Intermittent Exotropia.Translational vision science & technology · 2025Article
- Impact of Online Video Game-Based Dichoptic Training on Binocular Vision Rehabilitation in Post-surgical Patients with Intermittent Exotropia.Ophthalmology and therapy · 2024Article
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Abstract
backgroundTo assess the clinical effectiveness of orthoptic therapy in the postoperative stabilisation and rehabilitation of binocular function in children with intermittent exotropia (IXT) after surgery.
methodsThis was a prospective, parallel, randomised controlled trial. A total of 136 IXT patients (aged from 7 to 17 years) who had been successfully corrected at 1 month after surgery were enrolled in this study, and 117 patients (58 controls) completed the 12-month follow-up visit. The primary outcome was established as the proportion of patients with suboptimal surgical outcomes, which were defined as: (1) exodeviation ≥10 prism diopters (PD) at distance or near using the simultaneous prism and cover test (SPCT), or (2) constant esotropia ≥6 PD at distance or near using SPCT, or (3) loss of 2 or more octaves of stereopsis from baseline. The secondary outcomes were the exodeviation at distance and near using the prism and alternate cover test (PACT), stereopsis, fusional exotropia control and convergence amplitude.
resultsThe cumulative probability of suboptimal surgical outcome by 12 months was 20.5% (14/68) in the orthoptic therapy group and 42.6% (29/68) in the control group. There was a significant difference between these two groups (χ
conclusionsEarly postoperative orthoptic therapy can effectively improve the surgical outcome as well as stereopsis and fusional amplitude.
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