F.ALIASGER Lecturer, SPIO ( a unit of Dr. Agarwal’s eye hospital , chennai ) Fakhruddin Aliasger
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Lecturer, SPIO ( a unit of Dr. Agarwal’s eye hospital , chennai )
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Bagolini’s striated glasses
Worth’s four dot test
Synaptophore
Prism Bar Cover Test(PBCT)
After image test
Progressive prism adaptation test(PPAT)
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Bagolini’s lenses are lens with fine grating of lines placed at 135 and 45 degrees in right and left eye
In unilateral strabismus if the lens before the deviated eye produces a streak that appears to go through the spot of light it indicates harmonious ARC
If the lens before the deviated eye produces a streak that does not go through the spot of light then it indicates presence of UNHARC
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Harmonious ARC Homonymous diplopia
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In the Worth 4-dot test, a red glass is worn in front of 1 eye and a green glass in front of the other
The Worth 4-dot test can produce a diplopic response in non-suppression heterotropicNRC and either a diplopic or a fusion response in ARC
As mentioned earlier, this test must be performed in conjunction with cover testing
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Make the patient sit on the synaptophore
Alternate flashing is done infront of both the eye and then type of deviation is noted
Then objectively angle of deviation is noted
Objective angle of deviation is neutralized by moving the arms inward or outwards
The angle of deviation is known as objective angle of deviation
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With SMP slide inside the tube the patient is asked whether slides are percivedsimultaneously as single object
If slides are not percived simultaneously then the patient is asked to move the arm such that slides are percieved as single object
The angle at which patient percieves single object is known as Subjective angle
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Incase of HARC the subjective angle is unity
Incase of UNHARC the subjective angle is not same as objective angle
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There are two slides available one with a vertical slit & the other with a horizontal slit
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The objective angle of deviation is measured with synoptophore
The tubes are set at zero & the slides are inserted
The current is switched on when the patient is ready for test to start
Each eye is stimulated for about 20 second After each eye has been stimulated ,the after
image slides are removed & the automatic binocular flashing device is switched on
Then the patient is asked to draw the after image positions
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A patient with NRC will see the after image as a symmetrical cross
A right esotropic patient with ARC will draw vertical image to the left of horizontal image
A right exotropic patient with ARC will draw vertical image to the right of the horizontal image
A patient may draw only vertical or only horizontal image in the presence of Suppresion
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NRC/HARC RET RXT
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Over correct esodeviation
let patient sit for 30-45 min.
Do the ACT
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repeat the procedure
Esodeviation(positive PAT) Exodeviation
(negative PAT)
Result of ACT
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The principles of treatment were those used to restore the normal sensory relationship of the two retinae
In the majority of strabismus cases, ARC is considered beneficial, and is therefore not treated
The exception is if surgery is to be carried out with a chance of obtaining BSV
However, great care should be taken so as not to produce diplopia
In general the cases considered for treatment will be of mixed correspondence.
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In unilateral strabismus, occlusion is maintained on the fixing eye until the squint had become alternating
It is then changed each day from one eye to the other in order to maintain the visual acuity in each eye, and to discourage the anomalous sensory relationship
The same procedure is adopted if the squint was already alternating
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On synoptophore following exercises are given to stimulate the fovea of the deviated eye
Macular massage
Bi- kinetic retinal stimulation
Flashing
After image test
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These were given using the after-image technique as a control
The giving of the after-image depended on alternative foveal stimulation,
Each fovea was subjected in turn to a stimulus which varied slightly for each eye
With the tube of the major synoptophoreadjusted to the objective angle of strabismus, the stimulus, in a linear form, produced by a specially-constructed slide, was first inserted into the right hand tube so that the beam of light was vertical
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A bright light was turned on behind this slide for approximately 20 seconds and the patient was instructed to observe a red fixation point in the centre of the bar of light so produced
The illumination was then turned on behind a horizontally placed slide in front of the left eye for a further 20 seconds, after which the slides were removed and flashing illumination was commenced in order to stimulate the formation of the after-image
While flashing was in progress the patient was asked to describe the after-image seen projected into space and to indicate the image form by holding two pencils in the appropriate position
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It was usual, at the beginning of the course of treatment, to find the afterimages uncrossed
However, with daily treatment on the major synoptophore, encouraging the patient to bring the lines together, it was found that, in many cases, the two lines would gradually come to form a cross
This appeared only fleetingly at first, but later the cross occurred more permanently
With further treatment, the after-images would form a cross without the aid of flashing illumination
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When the after-images showed, by the formation of a symmetrical cross, that normal retinal correspondence had developed, one of a pair of simultaneous perception slides was inserted; when the picture was centred on the cross, the second slide of the pair was inserted
The two slides were only allowed to remain if the pictures were correctly superimposed, and provided that the cross was still visible
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An operation to restore the eyes to a normal position was not contemplated until the after-image test showed that normal correspondence was fairly constant and that some range of fusion was possible on the synoptophore
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