Refractive Errors in Strabismic Patients: Fixing Eye Becomes Myopicl

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.