Esotropia

Esotropia is the medical term for internal strabismus.

In esotropia, one or both eyes deviate toward the nose. This leads to the fact that the visual axes of the eyes do not converge on the object of fixation. This causes double vision and impaired binocular vision.

The causes of esotropia can be congenital or acquired. Congenital disorders include developmental anomalies of the eye muscles, impaired innervation of the eye muscles, and refractive errors. Acquired esotropia occurs after injuries, inflammatory eye diseases, brain tumors, strokes, and traumatic brain injuries.

Diagnosis of esotropia includes an ophthalmological examination, which allows you to determine the degree of convergence of the visual axes and identify the cause of strabismus.

Treatment depends on the cause and includes wearing glasses to correct refractive errors, exercises to restore binocular vision, and in severe cases, surgical correction of the position of the eye muscles.

Esotropia or “rotational-tilted” cyclopia is also called the incorrect position of the eyeball in the orbit.

This lateral position of the eye occurs in children from 8 weeks to 3 months of life as a physiological condition. More often it is a unilateral esotropic deformity. Noted