View clinical trials related to Strabismus.
Filter by:Strabismus is a common condition (4-6% of the population) . The screening and treatment is a public health issue. Indeed, beyond the disfigurement, this disease is very supplier of amblyopia which is definitive if it is not detected and treated early (before 6 years old). Initial treatment of strabismus is medical with orthoptic reeducation through penalization of the better eye in case of amblyopia or wearing optical correction in case of associated refractive disorder. The second step is the treatment of strabismus is the surgery, when medical treatment has not resulted in a recovery of the visual axes. The principle of surgery is to weaken or strengthen one or more extraocular muscles of one (or two) eye to correct the eyes squint deviation. The main difficulty of surgical treatment is to assess the amount of strengthening or weakening muscles to do in order to obtain the best result and for a long time. The investigators know that the postmortem anatomical position of the eyes is generally a slight elevation and divergence, but is inferior to the angle of divergence of the orbital axes. Curare and similar products which inhibit the nervous transmission at the neuromuscular junction, can be used to reproduce this situation in normal subjects. The sign of general anesthesia is then to evaluate the angle of strabismus when the patient is under deep general anesthesia and with a complete muscle relaxation, obtained only when curarised it. If one or both eyes are recovering under general anesthesia, strabismus is mainly due to dynamic changes and surgery limiting muscle play (wire operation) and sometimes one eye is justified. A combination of both is possible (down + wireless), guided by the importance of the sign of general anesthesia on two prominent eyes or one eye. This sign of general anesthesia is however less known and most poorly quantified in healthy subjects. Yet it seems very important to determine what is deviation in normal subjects after neuromuscular blockade, as his eye movement is also subject to mechanical factors and spastic. This would indicate whether the state of rectitude (no strabismus) is the result of a deviation at complete rest (appearing under general anesthesia) and corrected by spastic elements wakefulness or, in another case this righteousness is already present in the state of general anesthesia (due to static factors) and slightly modified by enlightenment.
This was a randomized, masked, controlled study of the effect of a virtual reality, binocular, 3-dimensional video game on visual acuity and stereopsis in adult patients with amblyopia. The trial has been halted as of June 2016 and will not be evaluating any new subjects for enrollment.
Visual acuity at near improves in children with Down syndrome using bifocals
This project will assess whether there is a significant difference in compliance with patching in amblyopic patients whose parents are instructed to pinch the superior and inferior edges of the patch before applying (in order to improve comfort) versus patients whose parents are instructed to place the patch evenly around the orbit.
Measuring ocular motility and alignment is important for diagnosing different causes of strabismus, following patients recovering from cranial nerve palsies, preparing patients for strabismus surgery and follow-up post surgery. The current clinical gold standards for measuring ocular alignment are the Hess screen and the Harms tangent screen. These tests are accurate, but require patient cooperation, and are not objective because the patient has to indicate the position of the light he sees on the screen. Our objective is to develop an accurate and easy to use goggles system to measure ocular alignment and motility using 3D video oculography.
The occurrence of emergence agitation (EA) in pediatric patients who have received sevoflurane anesthesia is a common postoperative problem. Among various strategies for reducing the incidence and severity of EA, the use of pharmacological agents at the end of anesthesia is thought to be the most convenient and easily applicable method in clinical situation. The one of typical agents that can be administered in this way is propofol. Previous studies demonstrated that the use of propofol 1mg/kg at the end of anesthesia could reduce the incidence of EA with low incidence of postoperative nausea and vomiting. However, it was also demonstrated that the use of propofol 1mg/kg at the end of anesthesia could delay the emergence time. The purpose of this study is to compare the preventive effect on EA and the emergence time between propofol 1mg/kg and propofol 0.5mg/kg administered at the end of sevoflurane anesthesia.
Objective: To find out how much visual improvement is possible in severe amblyopia using full-time occlusion therapy with an eye patch and to see if improvement is influenced by the patient's age. Methods: An interventional clinical trial of 115 consecutive cases with unilateral, severe amblyopia was conducted at a tertiary referral center from Jan 2010 to Oct 2012. Patients were divided into three age groups: 3-7 years (n= 38), 8-12 years (n=41), 13-35 years (n=36). After a complete ophthalmological examination by a single ophthalmologist, cases with organic visual loss were excluded; cases with previous part-time occlusion therapy that had failed were included in the study. Patients were given optimal refractive correction for a month, followed by full-time occlusion therapy along with near visual activities for 3-4 hours/day. The therapy was continued until maximum visual recovery was achieved (6/6 Snellen's). Therapy was gradually reduced and stopped. Patients were followed-up regularly for the next 18 months.
This study is trying to see if using precedex pre-operatively prevents emergence delirium in pediatric (ages 1-7) patients undergoing strabismus surgery.
Sevoflurane is frequently used for pediatric anesthesia because it has low pungency and rapid onset and offset of action.The reported incidence of emergence agitation (EA) following sevoflurane anesthesia varies from 10-80%. Despite its spontaneous resolution, EA is still considered as a potentially serious complication because of the risks of self-injury, and because of the stress caused to both caregivers and families. Dexmedetomidine, an Alpha2-adrenoceptor agonist with sedative, analgesic, and anxiolytic actions, has been used in pediatric populations.Several prospective clinical trials in children have shown that dexmedetomidine significantly reduces the incidence of EA prior to recovery from sevoflurane anesthesia. However, the effect of dexmedetomidine premedication on emergence agitation has not been fully evaluated. The purpose of the present study was to verify the hypothesis that intranasal premedication with dexmedetomidine is effective in reducing emergence agitation after sevoflurane anaesthesia.
The purpose of this project is to compare the performance of the Pediatric Vision Scanner (PVS) with the Gold Standard Examination to determine the effectiveness of the PVS at detecting amblyopia and strabismus.