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JIFACTOR:Publisher: Peytchinski, Gospodin Iliev
ISSN: 1312 773X (Online)
Issue: 2014, vol. 20, issue 6
Subject Collection: Medicine
Pages: 547-551
DOI: 10.5272/jimab.2014206.547
Published online: 10 December 2014
J of IMAB 2014 Oct-Dec;20(6):547-551
BANGERTER FOILS IN THE POSTOPERATIVE MANAGEMENT OF ESOTROPIA.
Galina G. Dimitrova1 
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Children Eye Department, Chair of Ophthalmology, University Alexandrovska Hospital - Sofia, Bulgaria.
ABSTRACT:
Purpose: To evaluate the application of Bangerter foils in the postoperative management of esotropia
Methods: A retrospective study of 200 patients who underwent bimedial recessions for various forms of alternating/alternated esotropia in the period of 2000-2013. In the cases of residual postoperative angle, tendency of recurrence of strabismus and preferred fixation, Bangerter foil was fixed on the corrective glass of the dominant eye- either on the next day of surgery, or on the 10-th postoperative day and was in use for at least 6 months.
Results: Bangerter foils were applied in 67(35,1%) under corrected patients with a mean residual angle for near 7,01±3,51Δ. Mean residual angle in patients without foils was 3,47±4,06Δ (p<0,001). Statistically significant factors in patients with filters were amblyopia treatment before surgery (p<0,001), anisometropia (p=0,003) and type of esotropia (accommodative vs. non accommodative (p<0,001).
Within the group without filters there was a significant increase of the residual angle for near on the third (p<0,001) and sixth month (p=0,036), while within the group with foils angle was not significantly changed (p=0,325; p=0,058) with time. In the group with foils no cases with relapse of strabismus and amblyopia were recorded and even a decrease of the postoperative angle was clinically observed in some patients.
Conclusion: To our experience Bangerter foils are a reliable tool in the postoperative management of undercorrected esotropia.
Key words: Bangerter foils, amblyopia, esotropia, central suppression, fusion,
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Dimitrova GG. Bangerter foils in the postoperative management of esotropia. J of IMAB. 2014 Oct-Dec;20(6):547-551. http://dx.doi.org/10.5272/jimab.2014206.547
Correspondence to: Dr. Galina Dimitrova, Chair of Ophthalmology, Children's Eye department, University Alexandrovska Hospital - Sofia; 1, St Georgi Sofiiski blvd., 1431 Sofia, Bulgaria; E-mail: gadim62@yahoo.com
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Received: 26 October 2014
Published online: 10 December 2014