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Amer. Orthoptic Jrnl. 59(1):93-97 (2009); doi:10.3368/aoj.59.1.93
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Management of Binocular Diplopia Due to Maculopathy with Combined Bangerter Filter and Fresnel Prism

Ida L. Iacobucci, C.O., Bruce A. Furr, M.S.P.H., C.O. and Steven M. Archer, M.D.

From the W. K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be addressed to: Ida L. Iacobucci, C.O., W. K. Kellogg Eye Center, University of Michigan, 1000 Wall Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48105.


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Purpose: To describe treatment of binocular diplopia due to maculopathy with a combination of Bangerter foil and Fresnel prism.

Methods and Case Report: A protocol for prescribing a combination of Bangerter foil and Fresnel prism is described. A series of three patients in whom a Bangerter foil or prism alone were ineffective for binocular diplopia due to maculopathy, along with a detailed case report of one of these patients, illustrates how a combination of both were used to treat the diplopia.

Conclusions: Fogging is presumed to relieve binocular diplopia due to maculopathy by inducing a functional central scotoma in the affected eye. In some patients, prism correction is needed in addition to a Bangerter foil to eliminate diplopia, possibly by impoving superimposition of the scotoma in the affected eye and the fovea of the sound eye.

Key words: dragged-fovea diplopia syndrome, diplopia, Bangerter foil, Fresnel prism


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