Congenital Nystagmus: Clinical Types and Their Surgical Treatment

Abstract

In congenital nystagmus, a careful study of the blocking compensation phenomena and of muscular defects – heterotropia opposite to the null-zone and strabismus – allows to extend surgery to more complex cases than the cases of pure innervational horizontal torticollis and to improve comfort, vision and visual field.

Surgery for nystagmus related head turn: Kestenbaum procedure and artificial divergence

“…The reduction of a manifest nystagmus by convergence can successfully be used for therapy [1,17,19,26,29,31,33,34,37,39,40,41,42]. Typically, during fixation at a short distance these patients take a smaller HT, and sometimes their visual acuity improves.…”