Fresnel prism treatment of sensory exotropia with restoration of sensory and motor fusion.

Anterior segment surgeons may treat patients with long-standing media opacities or uncorrected aphakia who have developed sensory strabismus. These patients are at risk for diplopia after surgery to clear the visual axis and restore emmetropia. This report describes 2 patients who regained comfortable single binocular vision without strabismus surgery. Sensory fusion was restored with Fresnel prisms, which were weaned and ultimately discarded as the patients' motor fusion was re-engaged after decades of disuse. Surgeons who restore vision in an eye with manifest sensory strabismus should be aware of this noninvasive, well-tolerated treatment option. Collaboration with an orthoptist or strabismologist may be helpful.