Eye muscle repair
Alternate Names : Repair of cross-eye, Resection and recession, Lazy eye repair, Strabismus repair, Extraocular muscle surgery
After the Procedure
This surgery is usually done on an outpatient basis. The corrected eye is usually straight right after surgery. Your child will be kept from rubbing their eye until they have recovered from anesthesia. Eye rubbing later on is not a problem, since children close their eyes when they rub them.
After a few hours of recovery, the child may go home. You should have a follow-up appointment with the eye surgeon 1 to 2 weeks after the surgery.
Prognosis
Eye muscle repair surgery does not fix the poor vision of a lazy eye, so a child may have to wear glasses. In general, the younger a child is when the operation is performed, the better the result. Your child’s eye should look normal a few weeks after the surgery.
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