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Squint

Squint: Introduction

Squint: Eyes not moving together properly. More detailed information about the symptoms, causes, and treatments of Squint is available below.

Symptoms of Squint

• Eyes looking different directions
• Double vision
• Difficulting focusing eyes
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Squint: Complications

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• Amblyopia - lazy eye
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Medical Textbooks Online about Squint

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Causes of Squint

• Weak eye muscles (see Eye movement symptoms)
• Eye muscle paralysis (see Paralysis symptoms)
• Eye muscle disease
• Eye muscle nerve disorders
• Eye vision disorder - especially if the eyes are affected differently.
• more causes...»

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Treatments for Squint

• Corrective eyeglasses
• Eye exercises
• Patch over normal eye - forcing the use of the "lazy" eye
• Eye surgery
• Treatment of any underlying cause
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News Archives for Squint

Medical news articles related to Squint include:

• Lots of Schoolkids Squint to See Chalkboard
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Source: HealthDay News

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Reseach about Squint

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Clinical Trials for Squint

The US based website ClinicalTrials.gov lists information on both federally and privately supported clinical trials using human volunteers.

Some of the clinical trials listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for Squint include:

• Development of the Eye Motor System During the First 7 Months of Life in Infants With and Without a Family History of Cross-Eye - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Screening for Studies on Nystagmus and Strabismus - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Bilateral Recession or Unilateral Recession-Resection as Surgery for Infantile Esotropia - This study has been completed (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• Does Using LMA Instead of an ET Tube Affect the Incidence of Postoperative Vomiting in Children Undergoing Strabismus Correction? - This study is currently recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• A Trial of Bifocals in Myopic Children With Esophoria - This study is no longer recruiting patients (Current: 23 Nov 2006)
• more trials...»

See full list of 15 Clinical Trials for Squint

Statistics for Squint

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• Prevalence and incidence statistics for Squint
• Death and Mortality statistics for Squint
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Types of Squint

• Convergent squint - sideways inward-looking squint
• Divergent squint - sideways outward-looking squint
• Vertical squint - eye wrongly lookup up or down
• Neonatal squint - common squint in newborn babies often resolving in first month.
• Paralytic strabismus
• more types...»

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Definitions of Squint:

Misalignment of the visual axes of the eyes. In comitant strabismus the degree of ocular misalignment does not vary with the direction of gaze. In noncomitant strabismus the degree of misalignment varies depending on direction of gaze or which eye is fixating on the target. (Miller, Walsh & Hoyt's Clinical Neuro-Ophthalmology, 4th ed, p641) - (Source - Diseases Database)

Abnormal alignment of one or both eyes - (Source - WordNet 2.1)

Squint is listed as a "rare disease" by the Office of Rare Diseases (ORD) of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). This means that Squint, or a subtype of Squint, affects less than 200,000 people in the US population.
Source - National Institutes of Health (NIH)

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