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Increment dose of BTX injection superior to routine surgery in Partially Accommodative Esotropia: Study
Esotropia is a form of ocular misalignment, in which the eye is rotated nasally. It is classified according to the age at which infantile esotropia typically occurred. Infantile esotropia usually occurs during the first six months of age while acquired esotropia usually occurs later. Acquired esotropia is furthermore classified into non-accommodative esotropia and accommodative esotropia in which the deviation usually responds to either fully or partially hyperopic spectacles or contact lenses.
If the deviation persists after total refractive error correction, the strabismus surgery or botulinum toxin (BTX) injection to extraocular muscles will be proposed. BTX is a toxin that is produced by Clostridium Botulinum and causes temporal paralysis of the muscle by preventing the release of acetylcholine from the nerve terminal.
To compare the efficacy of BTX dose increments to BMR in treating children with Infantile esotropia and PAET, AlShamlan and Alghazal conducted a retrospective study that included pediatric patients ≤16 years old with infantile esotropia and PAET at Dhahran Eye Specialist Hospital (DESH) from 2014 till 2021 treated with increment dose of BTX or BMR. A successful outcome was defined as ocular alignment within 10 PD of deviation after 1–3 BTX injections or one surgery with a minimum follow-up of 6 months.
Of 177 patients, 101 patients received BTX treatment for either infantile esotropia (n = 37) or PAET (n = 64) and 76 patients underwent BMR for either infantile ET (n = 25) or PAET (n = 51).
BTX showed a higher success rate than BMR {65.3% vs 55.3% (p = 0.174)}.
In patients with infantile esotropia, the success rate was comparable between BTX group and BMR group {40.5% vs 52% (p = 0.440)}.
However, the success rate was statistically significantly higher in BTX group in compare to BMR group {79.7% vs 56.9% (p = 0.014)}.
Consecutive exotropia was 0% in BTX group and 9.2% in BMR group (p = 0.002).
The successful outcome in study was higher in patients who underwent increment doses of BTX after the first injection 47.5% (p < 0.001) representing 72.7% of all patients with successful outcomes in the BTX group.
Furthermore, a statistical significance was found in patients who received the first injection with the highest success rate in patients who received 2.5 IU (83.3%) and the least successful rate in patients who received 10 IU (17.5%). This could be explained by the small angle at presentation that required small dose of BTX and the fact that any patient beyond 40 PD was given the same dose of 10 IU that would be given to a patient with deviation ranging from (30–40 PD).
Those patients who did not achieve successful outcomes after the first injection had a higher success rate after receiving multiple injections with a cumulative success rate of 62.4% and 65.3% after second and third injections, respectively, using the same methodology of increment doses (55.6% and 60% of patients who underwent 2nd and 3rd injection have successful outcomes respectively).
"In conclusion, the increment dose of BTX injection in correlation to the angle of deviation is comparable to surgery especially in a patient with infantile esotropia where they usually have a large angle of deviation with BTX injection having the advantage of being shorter in duration, lower costs, less exposure to general anesthesia and minimally invasive intervention. The increment dose of BTX injection in PAET was found to be superior to standard surgery with an incidence of 0% consecutive exotropia."
Source: AlShamlan and Alghazal; Clinical Ophthalmology 2022:16 https://doi.org/10.2147/OPTH.S382499
Dr Ishan Kataria has done his MBBS from Medical College Bijapur and MS in Ophthalmology from Dr Vasant Rao Pawar Medical College, Nasik. Post completing MD, he pursuid Anterior Segment Fellowship from Sankara Eye Hospital and worked as a competent phaco and anterior segment consultant surgeon in a trust hospital in Bathinda for 2 years.He is currently pursuing Fellowship in Vitreo-Retina at Dr Sohan Singh Eye hospital Amritsar and is actively involved in various research activities under the guidance of the faculty.
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