Validity of vector analysis for aggregate astigmatic data.
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Sait Egrilmez
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Negative social bias against children with strabismus.
PURPOSE: To determine whether the presence of noticeable strabismus creates a negative social bias against children. METHODS: Photographs of two boys and two girls were digitally altered to create photographs of the same child in orthotropic, esotropic and exotropic states. Elementary school teachers rated their perceptions of the children's personal characteristics (using a 10-item list of personal characteristics) based on their responses to these whole-face photographs. The participants were also asked to answer five questions related to the first impressions created by the photographs. RESULTS: Children with esotropia and exotropia were rated more negatively than orthotropic children on all 10 characteristics. Children with esotropia were rated more negatively than those with exotropia on most of these characteristics. CONCLUSIONS: Children with noticeable strabismus are viewed negatively. Hence, correction of strabismus may provide psychosocial benefits even when there is no hope of improving visual function.
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Oculometric features of hyperopia in children with accommodative refractive esotropia.
PURPOSE: To determine the nature of hyperopia in children with accommodative refractive esotropia (ARE) by evaluating the relationships between corneal radius (CR), axial length (AL), age and equivalent spherical refraction (SEQ). METHODS: A total of 112 children with ARE were included in the study. The children underwent an overall ophthalmic examination including cycloplegic refraction, keratometry and ultrasonic AL measurement. RESULTS: Statistical analysis revealed a strong relationship between AL and SEQ (p < 0.001). A significant correlation was also found between AL and CR (p < 0.001). The relationship between AL and age was weak but statistically significant (p = 0.02). Multiple regression analysis, using SEQ as the dependent variable and CR, AL and age as independent variables, revealed that AL accounts for 43.5% of the variance, and the combination of CR and AL accounts for 60.9% of the variance. CONCLUSION: Hyperopia is predominantly axial in nature in children with ARE. However, other refractive components are also involved in producing hyperopic refractive errors.
Accommodation, Ocular↗
Comparison of cosmetic results in frontalis sling operations: the eyelid crease incision versus the supralash stab incision.
PURPOSE: In addition to ptosis, the lack of eyelid crease is one of the main cosmetic problems of patients with poor levator function. In this study, we aimed to evaluate the effect of the incision site on ptosis correction and eyelid crease formation in frontalis sling operations. MATERIALS AND METHODS: Photographs and charts of 27 patients (45 eyelids) who underwent frontalis sling operations were retrospectively reviewed. All patients had congenital ptosis with poor levator function ranging from 0 to 4 mm. In group I (15 eyelids), 3 supralash eyelid skin incisions were performed and the sling material was threaded along the tarsal surface. In group 11 (30 eyelids), the eyelid crease approach was used with the suturing of the sling material directly to the tarsus. RESULTS: Although lid contour and lid crease symmetry were good in 46.6% of the cases in group I, eyelid crease formation was not satisfactory in any of the cases. Lid contour and lid crease symmetry were good in 76.6% of the cases in group II. CONCLUSION: Our results indicated that the eyelid crease approach provided better functional and cosmetic results than did the supralash stab incision in frontalis sling operations. The passage of the sling material behind the orbital septum by direct visualization in the eyelid crease approach is one of the main factors affecting the surgical success of the frontalis sling operation.
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