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Strabismus surgery may predispose patients to orbital myositis

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Patients undergoing reoperation for strabismus may be predisposed to orbital myositis, according to a small study.

Andrew B. Wolf, MD, and colleagues reviewed the medical records of four patients who developed orbital myositis after routine strabismus surgery. All four cases involved reoperations, which were performed between 1998 and 2003, according to the study.

Patients developed myositis symptoms an average of 21 days postop, ranging from 4 days to 34 days.

In all cases, treatment with systemic corticosteroids led to a rapid resolution of symptoms, which supported the diagnosis of myositis, the authors noted.

The study is published in the August issue of Journal of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus.