Medial Rectus Tendon Elongation with Bovine Pericard (Tutopatch®) in Thyroid-Associated Orbitopathy: A Long-Term Follow-Up including Oculodynamic MRI

Table 5

Dose effect (PD/mm): comparison with the literature.

Method		Our results	Results in literature^a
Recession with Tutopatch	Bilateral M. rectus medialis	@ distance: 3.63	1.57–1.75^b,c
		@ near fixation: 3.43	1.39–1.57^b,d
	Unilateral M. rectus inferior	—	3.46–3.58^b,c
Conventional recession	Bilateral M. rectus medialis	@ distance: 2.95	2.72–2.77^c,e
		@ near fixation: 2.18	1.92–2.27^b,c
	Unilateral M. rectus inferior	—	3.49^b,c

^aNot specified if angle at near fixation or distance, degrees converted to prism diopters (rate: °/0.5729); ^bwith prior decompression; ^cEckstein, Schittkowski et al.[1]; ^dEckstein et al. [10]; ^ewithout prior decompression.