Strabismus Happens: Strabismus Secondary to Ocular Disease and/or Surgery
Introduction
Today the American Orthoptic Council, the American Association of Certified Orthoptists, and the American Academy of Ophthalmology are pleased to jointly sponsor this Symposium on STRABISMUS HAPPENS: STRABISMUS SECONDARY TO OCULAR DISEASE AND SURGERY.
As either a comprehensive or specialty ophthalmologist, we are confronted with diseases of the eye which, in of themselves may lead to strabismus (e.g., Graves' Thyroid Ophthalmopathy) or we may be presented with the patient who develops strabismus after beautifully performed surgery for the presenting ocular disorder (e.g., diplopia after cataract or retinal detachment surgery).
As our technology and creativity has given us the opportunity to do futuristic procedures (e.g., retinal translocation for sub macular neovascularization in age related macular degeneration) and to commonly perform successful refractive surgery, we are finding patients with resultant torsional diplopia or manifestation of a previously well controlled strabismus.
In this symposium, carefully selected experts in the field will help us to predict when strabismus might happen, to understand why it happened, and give us strategies to deal with it after it happens.