UPI: Surgery for Crossed Eyes Not Just for Kids

CHICAGO, Sept. 29 (UPI) -- A U.S. ophthalmologist says a widely held belief -- that surgery to fix crossed eyes is just for kids -- is not true and adults can benefit from such surgery.

Dr. James McDonnell, an ophthalmologist at Loyola University Medical Center, said many adults with strabismus have had the condition all their lives, while others have it as a result of such conditions as stroke, tumor or brain injury.

Patients are given many reasons why they shouldn't get treatment -- such as strabismus can only be corrected by a certain age; they would outgrow the problem; they would need another surgery or, if they had undergone a previous surgery nothing further could be done.  Click here to read more.