Step by Step Clinical Management of Strabismus with DVD ROM

This small handbook is aimed to provide a simple and comprehensive outline of the management protocols for dealing with different forms of ocular motility disorders and strabismus. The basic clinical work-up of a patient with strabismus, the management of amblyopia, the importance of refraction in the management of these conditions, both as an adjunct and as a substitute to surgery and the principles of non-surgical and surgical management of strabismus have been briefly described. Some of the surgical techniques have been demonstrated in the DVD accompanying this book. A short summary of different clinical presentations of strabismus and ocular motility disorders have been elucidated, highlighting the main features. It has been attempted to simplify complex concepts and illustrate the same with diagrams and photographs, wherever indicated. With expanding human knowledge and skills, many conditions previously believed to be of idiopathic multifactorial origins, have been identified and localized with increasing precision to anomalies in particular genes or chromosomes. The same has been true for some of the more exotic strabismus syndromes which have now been re-classified according to the abnormalities in the genes and chromosomes found. A short overview of strabismus with strong genetic basis has been provided to orient the busy practitioner and the even busier ophthalmic postgraduate student to them. It is hoped that this short, illustrated handbook is found useful by the readers.