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Alternating hypertropia

MedGen UID:: 573278
•Concept ID:: C0339639
•: Disease or Syndrome

SNOMED CT:	Alternating hypertropia (232107008)

HPO:	HP:0500076

Definition

A type of vertical tropia in which, when one eye is fixing, the other eye is deviated upwards. [from HPO]

Term Hierarchy

GTR
MeSH

CClinical test, RResearch test, OOMIM, GGeneReviews, VClinVar

CROGVAlternating hypertropia

Abnormal eye physiology
- Abnormality of eye movement
  - Abnormal conjugate eye movement
    - Strabismus
      - Heterotropia
        Hypertropia
        Alternating hypertropia

Professional guidelines

PubMed

Childhood Eye Examination in Primary Care.

Reedy-Cooper A, Scartozzi C, Yurkonis T
Am Fam Physician 2023 Jul;108(1):40-50. PMID: 37440736

Botulinum toxin for the treatment of strabismus.

Bort-Martí AR, Rowe FJ, Ruiz Sifre L, Ng SM, Bort-Martí S, Ruiz Garcia V
Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2023 Mar 14;3(3):CD006499. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD006499.pub5. PMID: 36916692 Free PMC Article

Fungal keratitis: A review of clinical presentations, treatment strategies and outcomes.

Sharma N, Bagga B, Singhal D, Nagpal R, Kate A, Saluja G, Maharana PK
Ocul Surf 2022 Apr;24:22-30. Epub 2021 Dec 13 doi: 10.1016/j.jtos.2021.12.001. PMID: 34915188

Recent clinical studies

Etiology

Efficacy of the lancaster red-green test for the diagnosis of superior oblique palsy.

Woo SJ, Hwang JM
Optom Vis Sci 2006 Nov;83(11):830-5. doi: 10.1097/01.opx.0000239099.01536.0f. PMID: 17106410

Surgical management of skew deviation.

Siatkowski RM, Sanke RF, Farris BK
J Neuroophthalmol 2003 Jun;23(2):136-41. doi: 10.1097/00041327-200306000-00006. PMID: 12782926

Diagnosis

Efficacy of the lancaster red-green test for the diagnosis of superior oblique palsy.

Woo SJ, Hwang JM
Optom Vis Sci 2006 Nov;83(11):830-5. doi: 10.1097/01.opx.0000239099.01536.0f. PMID: 17106410

Surgical management of skew deviation.

Siatkowski RM, Sanke RF, Farris BK
J Neuroophthalmol 2003 Jun;23(2):136-41. doi: 10.1097/00041327-200306000-00006. PMID: 12782926

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