Refractive Errors in Strabismic Patients: Fixing Eye Becomes Myopicl.

Jin, Yong Han; Kim, Yong Jai

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1991;32(2):190-194.
Published online February 1, 1991.

Refractive Errors in Strabismic Patients: Fixing Eye Becomes Myopicl.

Yong Han Jin, Yong Jai Kim

Department of Ophthalmology, Asan Medical Center, Ulsan University, Korea.

사시환자의 굴절이상 - 주시안은 점점 근시가 되는가 ? -

진용한(Yong Han Jin),김용제(Yong Jai Kim)

Abstract

We examined 59 intermittent strabismic patients who were not alternate fixaters. Fixing eyes of these patients were found to be more myopic that the fellow eyes in 80% of the cases, and it was statistically significant(p<0.01). When both eyes were myopic and corrected with glasses, the more myopic of the two eyes was still used to fixate at distant objects(87%). Although neither the duration of strabismus nor the degree of anisometropia was found to be significantly related(r=0.336), we do suspect that myopia of the fixating eyes is causatively related to greaterer use rather than clearer image of certain distant objects without accommodation.

Key Words: fixing eye;myopia;strabismus