Ocular Motility Disorders (Convergence Insufficiency)

212  relevant articles (12 outcomes, 8 trials/studies) found for this Disease

Convergence Insufficiency; Internuclear Ophthalmoplegia; Eye Motility Disorders; Parinaud's Syndrome; Convergence Excess; Opsoclonus; Cyclophoria; Eye Movement Disorders; Parinaud Syndrome; Brown's Tendon Sheath Syndrome; Deficiency, Smooth Pursuit; Paroxysmal Ocular Dyskinesia; Pseudoophthalmoplegia; Spasm of Conjugate Gaze; Syndrome, Brown's Tendon Sheath; Tendon Sheath Syndrome of Brown; Conjugate Gaze Spasm; Conjugate Gaze Spasms; Convergence Excesses; Convergence Insufficiencies; Cyclophorias; Deficiencies, Smooth Pursuit; Deviation, Skew; Deviations, Skew; Dyskinesia, Paroxysmal Ocular; Dyskinesias, Paroxysmal Ocular; Excess, Convergence; Eye Motility Disorder; Eye Movement Disorder; Gaze Spasms, Conjugate; Insufficiencies, Convergence; Insufficiency, Convergence; Internuclear Ophthalmoplegias; Ocular Dyskinesia, Paroxysmal; Ocular Dyskinesias, Paroxysmal; Ocular Motility Disorder; Ophthalmoplegia, Internuclear; Ophthalmoplegias, Internuclear; Parinauds Syndrome; Paroxysmal Ocular Dyskinesias; Pseudoophthalmoplegias; Pursuit Deficiencies, Smooth; Pursuit Deficiency, Smooth; Skew Deviations; Smooth Pursuit Deficiencies; Syndrome, Parinaud; Syndrome, Parinaud's; Brown Tendon Sheath Syndrome; Ocular Torticollis; Skew Deviation; Smooth Pursuit Deficiency

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Disease Context: Research Results

Related Diseases

1.	Myoclonus (Nocturnal Myoclonus)
2.	Ataxia (Dyssynergia)
3.	Neoplasms (Cancer)
4.	Diplopia (Double Vision)
5.	Dyskinesias (Dyskinesia)

Experts

1.	Tate, Elizabeth D: 2 articles (08/2005 - 12/2004)
2.	Allison, Tyler J: 2 articles (08/2005 - 12/2004)
3.	Pranzatelli, Michael R: 2 articles (08/2005 - 12/2004)
4.	Graus, F: 1 article (05/2008)
5.	Xifró, X: 1 article (05/2008)
6.	Saiz, A: 1 article (05/2008)
7.	Alberch, J: 1 article (05/2008)
8.	Sabater, L: 1 article (05/2008)
9.	Blatt, Julie: 1 article (02/2008)
10.	Bell, Jessica: 1 article (02/2008)

Drugs and Biologics

Drugs and Important Biological Agents (IBA) related to Ocular Motility Disorders:

1.	Propranolol (Inderal)FDA LinkGeneric 11/01/1976 - "Two infants with the classical involuntary movements of polymyoclonia and opsoclonus were treated with propanolol in a dosage of 2 mg/kg/24 hr. There was a marked improvement in the abnormal movements in both children. " 01/01/1986 - "Opsoclonus and ocular flutter have been treated successfully with corticosteroids, propranolol, and clonazepam, while microflutter, an extremely rare disorder, can resolve with baclofen. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	AntibodiesIBA 05/01/1988 - "Antineuronal antibodies were not found in other patients with paraneoplastic opsoclonus." 01/01/1992 - "Treatment of the tumor and immunosuppressors are effective in opsoclonus whereas patients with PCD or PEM with circulating antibodies do not improve." 12/01/2008 - "Anti-Ri is one of these antibodies in some cases but it is more commonly associated with paraneoplastic opsoclonus myoclonus in the context of gynecological neoplasia. " 02/01/2004 - "A small subset of patients with opsoclonus and ataxia harbor anti-Ri antibodies. " 08/01/1994 - "Anti-Ri antibodies associated with opsoclonus and progressive encephalomyelitis with rigidity." Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Immunoglobulin G (IgG)IBA 08/01/1995 - "Before chemotherapy, she received intravenously administered IgG, 1 gm/kg, for 2 days; within 48 hours of the first dose, there was significant improvement of the opsoclonus-myoclonus and ataxia. " 05/01/1989 - "Serum immunoreactivity was revealed using HRP-conjugated anti-human IgG. Significant findings included: (1) patients with epilepsy had an increased incidence of anti-CNS reactivity as revealed on frontal cortex immunoblots (p less than 0.05) but not on cerebellar immunoblots; (2) there was an increase in the incidence of immunoblot reactivity with age in the controls and the neurology cases; (3) there was an increased incidence of immunoblot reactivity in those cases with a presumed inflammatory central or peripheral neurologic disease; (4) in six additional cases with opsoclonus-myoclonus there was cerebellar-specific immunoreactivity with identified antigenic molecular weights of 27 and 35, and 62 kDaltons; (5) in 31 additional cases of systemic lupus erythematosus there was significant immunoblot reactivity (p less than 0.001) when compared to a subset of age-matched controls. " 01/01/1993 - "Serum and CSF contained IgG antibodies that appear to be identical to "anti-Ri" antibodies associated with paraneoplastic opsoclonus and ataxia. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	Clonazepam (Rivotril)FDA LinkGeneric 01/01/2006 - "Effective high-dose clonazepam treatment in two patients with opsoclonus and myoclonus: GABAergic hypothesis." 01/01/1986 - "Opsoclonus and ocular flutter have been treated successfully with corticosteroids, propranolol, and clonazepam, while microflutter, an extremely rare disorder, can resolve with baclofen. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Reserpine (Serpasil)FDA Link 04/01/1986 - "One week after starting reserpine, opsoclonus improved markedly and he became able to read again. " 04/01/1986 - "[Opsoclonus-polymyoclonia syndrome suppressed with reserpine]" Order ALL the reference details at left...
6.	Prednisolone (Predate)FDA LinkGeneric 09/01/1994 - "He was treated with prednisolone, 40 mg/day, which was effective for disturbance of consciousness, but opsoclonus and myoclonus persisted. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
7.	BaclofenFDA LinkGeneric 01/01/1986 - "Opsoclonus and ocular flutter have been treated successfully with corticosteroids, propranolol, and clonazepam, while microflutter, an extremely rare disorder, can resolve with baclofen. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
8.	Adrenal Cortex Hormones (Corticosteroids)IBA 01/01/1986 - "Opsoclonus and ocular flutter have been treated successfully with corticosteroids, propranolol, and clonazepam, while microflutter, an extremely rare disorder, can resolve with baclofen. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
9.	glucuronyl glucosamine glycan sulfate (Vessel)IBA 07/01/2002 - "CONCLUSIONS: Full tendon rectus muscle transposition surgery augmented with posterior fixation sutures and the vessel-sparing three fourths partial tendon transposition modification of this technique are effective for the treatment of a variety of complex vertical and horizontal paralytic ocular motility disorders." Order ALL the reference details at left...
10.	Immunoglobulins (Immunoglobulin)IBA 02/01/1996 - "Treatment of opsoclonus-myoclonus with high-dose intravenous immunoglobulin." 04/01/1992 - "High-dose i.v. human immunoglobulin in a case with infantile opsoclonus polymyoclonia syndrome." 07/01/1996 - "Treatment with intravenously administered immunoglobulins of the neuroblastoma-associated opsoclonus-myoclonus." 06/01/1994 - "Treatment with intravenous immunoglobulin coincided with the resolution of opsoclonus-myoclonus and the cessation of new neurologic symptoms. " 01/01/2002 - "The goals of this study were to understand the ongoing neurologic and developmental deficits of children who are treated for opsoclonus-ataxia with associated neuroblastoma; to relate treatment history to outcome; and to quantify objectively the acute changes in motor function, speech, mood, and behavior related to intravenous immunoglobulin (IVIg) treatment. " Order ALL the reference details at left...

Therapies and Procedures

1.	Orthoptics (Orthoptic) 01/01/1986 - "Orthoptic exercises can be beneficial in posttraumatic internuclear ophthalmoplegia. " 01/01/2005 - "Neither pencil push-ups nor placebo vision therapy/orthoptics was effective in improving either symptoms or signs associated with convergence insufficiency." 07/01/1992 - "In patients with convergence insufficiency and a maximum deviation of 25 PD or less the orthoptic treatment was found to be effective in offering symptomatic relief and improving binocular functional status. " 04/01/2008 - "PURPOSE: The Convergence Insufficiency Treatment Trial (CITT) Investigator Group conducted a preliminary study assessing the effectiveness of home-based push-up therapy and office-based vision therapy/orthoptics for the treatment of convergence insufficiency (CI). " 12/01/1982 - "In this study we report on the results of an experiment designed to establish whether the adaptation ability improves in patients who are successfully treated, by means of orthoptics, for convergence insufficiency. " Order ALL the reference details at left...
2.	Drug Therapy (Chemotherapy) 04/01/1991 - "[Drug therapy of supranuclear eye movement disorders]" 12/01/1981 - "Bilateral internuclear ophthalmoplegia after intrathecal chemotherapy and cranial irradiation." 07/01/2003 - "In our patient opsoclonus began after ovarian cancer diagnosis, after chemotherapy and radiotherapy, improving with corticoid and clonazepan therapy." 08/01/1995 - "Before chemotherapy, she received intravenously administered IgG, 1 gm/kg, for 2 days; within 48 hours of the first dose, there was significant improvement of the opsoclonus-myoclonus and ataxia. " 01/01/1996 - "[Hypomagnesemic and hypocalcemic coma, convulsions and ocular motility disorders after chemotherapy with platinum compounds]" Order ALL the reference details at left...
3.	Transplants (Transplant) 04/01/1989 - "The applying of muscular puckering, associated with a controlled or kept tenotomy, of muscular transplant, of "Fadenoperation" and of oblique surgery, allowed to obtain good results with suppression of diplopia, at least in the facing and in the lower glance, attenuation of ocular torticollis, disappearing of the ocular deviation, and restitution of a fusion area in primary position, within a more or less extended zone of space." 10/01/2000 - "Reverse and converse ocular bobbing with synkinetic blinking and opsoclonus in a child with Epstein-Barr virus encephalitis after bone marrow transplant for MPS I." 08/01/1988 - "Increasing use of CT (and possibly MRI in the near future) to follow persisting post-reduction complications (Fig. 14)--whether altered position of bone grafts or implants, ocular motility disorders and enophthalmos, or sinus obliteration or ablation--has resulted in the further need for the clinician and radiologist to understand each other's capabilities, in order to offer the patient maximum benefit from his or her imaging referral." 08/01/2000 - "Diplopia, nystagmus, visual hallucinations, and internuclear ophthalmoplegia developed in a 30-year-old woman 84 days after she received a matched, unrelated bone marrow transplant for chronic myeloid leukemia. " 03/01/1997 - "Eye movement disorders in bone marrow transplant patients on cyclosporin and ganciclovir." Order ALL the reference details at left...
4.	Sutures (Suture) 09/01/1984 - "[Use of Jampolsky's adjustable sutures in the treatment of eye movement disorders]" 02/01/2001 - "CONCLUSIONS: MR resection(s) with adjustable suture combined with intentional postoperative aggressive overcorrection and the use of Fresnel prisms is useful in intermittent exotropia of the convergence insufficiency type. " 02/01/2001 - "Medial rectus resection(s) with adjustable suture for intermittent exotropia of the convergence insufficiency type." 01/01/1990 - "The treatment of choice for eso- and exodeviations with variable angle and/or convergence excess or eye muscle palsy with diplopia in the gaze field of the paretic muscle is--at least in Central Europe--posterior fixation sutures (Cüpper's suture operation). " 07/01/2002 - "CONCLUSIONS: Full tendon rectus muscle transposition surgery augmented with posterior fixation sutures and the vessel-sparing three fourths partial tendon transposition modification of this technique are effective for the treatment of a variety of complex vertical and horizontal paralytic ocular motility disorders." Order ALL the reference details at left...
5.	Ventriculostomy 12/01/1984 - "In one patient bilateral partial deafness and Parinaud syndrome which was caused by posterior herniation was cured by third ventriculostomy. " 06/15/2002 - "[Parinaud's syndrome as a sign of acute obstructive hydrocephalus: recovery after acute ventriculostomy]" Order ALL the reference details at left...