İstanbul Üniversitesi Veteriner Fakültesi Dergisi (Jan 2017)

Convergent Strabismus in a Cat and It’s Surgical Treatment

  • Murat KİBAR,
  • Özgür İLHAN

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 43, no. 1
pp. 71 – 73

Abstract

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The aim of this study was to improve visual acuity and esthetic correction in a short hair domestic cat with strabismus. A domestic short hair cat (1 year old, male) referred with visual deficit and progressively obvious strabismus. For recession surgery, medial rectus muscle was detached from the sclera after used suspensory suture. The muscle insertion was recessed 4 mm and sutured to sclera. In conclusion, strabismus can be caused to visual deficy and treated succesfully by recession surgery in cats.

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