• Siddharth Agrawal, Vinita Singh, and Priyanka Singh.
• Department of Ophthalmology, King Georges' Medical University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India.
• Indian J Ophthalmol. 2015 Jul 1; 63 (7): 611-3.

AimTo compare the surgical outcome of adjustable with the conventional recession in patients with horizontal comitant strabismus.Patients And MethodsA prospective comparative nonrandomized interventional pilot study was performed on patients with horizontal comitant strabismus. Fifty-four patients (27 in each group) were allocated into 2 groups to undergo either adjustable suture (AS) recession or non-AS (NAS) recession along with conventional resection. The patients were followed up for 6 months. A successful outcome was defined as deviation ±10 prism diopters at 6 months. The results were statistically analyzed by Chi-square test, Fisher's exact test, and Student's t-test.ResultsA successful outcome was found in 24 (88.8%) patients in AS and 17 (62.9%) in NAS group (P = 0.02). The postoperative adjustment was done in 13 (48.1%) patients in AS group. There was one complication (tenon's cyst) in AS group.ConclusionAS recession may be considered in all cooperative patients undergoing strabismus surgery for comitant deviations.

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