Dr. Manju Bhate

Consultant Ophthalmologist, Cataract, Strabismus (Squint), Neuro-ophthalmology, Children's Eye Care,Kallam Anji Reddy campus; L V Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad

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Manju Bhate completed her post-graduation in Ophthalmology from Pune. This was followed by advanced training in Comprehensive Ophthalmology from Sydney, a long-term fellowship in Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus from the Childrens Hospital Westmead in Sydney, Australia, and a short-term training from Akron Childrens Hospital in the USA. Dr Bhate brings along a vast and varied experience of working in different hospitals and health care centres like John Hunter & Childrens Hospital, New South Wales as a Consultant Paediatric Ophthalmologist and Strabismologist, and later, as part of a voluntary project, she was actively involved in setting-up paediatric eye care service at Myanmar in South East Asia. Keenly interested in teaching, she also trained local Ophthalmologists there. Dr Manju Bhate is a member of several prestigious Ophthalmological societies and bodies like Australia and New Zealand Pediatric and Strabismus Society, Asia-Pacific Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Society, World Society of Paediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, and the All India Ophthalmic Society. She has presented widely at various national and international conferences and has published several publications in peer-reviewed journals. Currently, she serves as a reviewer for many journals, including the Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, Seminars in Ophthalmology, Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology and Current Eye Research. Her main areas of interest are Paediatric Cataract, Complex Strabismus, Genetic Eye Diseases, Paediatric Neuro-ophthalmology and Retinopathy of Prematurity.

  1. Articles 7 Apr 2024 4 min read

    Cyclic Esotropia

    Cyclic esotropia is a rare form of non-accommodative convergent strabismus which present as 24-hour period of straight eye position followed by 24 hours of large-angle esotropia1. Burian in 1958 described Cyclic esotropia for the first time in English literature2. Duke-Elder3 described the “Cyclic Squint” as a “rare and curious condition which invariably takes the form of a temporary esotropia.” Etiopathogenesis/Theories The etiology of this rare form of convergent strabismus is unknown. Possible theories behind the evolution of such a strabismus include progressive loss of compensation of a latent strabismus, change of a central clock mechanism, and incomplete cerebral dominance, with interhemispheric conflict1 spontaneously or may be precipitated by a trigger. The trigger can be traumatic brain injury, strabismus surgery, extracapsular cataract surgery, retinal detachment with scleral buckling, orbital surgery and ocular trauma 4 . However, many cases have been associated with other

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