Study	Reason for exclusion
Arnoult 1976	Compared 2 groups retrospectively
Badawi 2014	Not intervention and comparator of interest: bilateral medial rectus versus Y‐split recession; surgery is on 2 muscles in both groups
Badawi 2018	Not intervention and comparator of interest: Y‐split recession versus de Decker’s Faden technique; surgery on 2 muscles in both groups
Birch 1995	Prospective cohort, no control group
Birch 1998	2 cohorts studied ‐ 1 retrospective, 1 prospective; assessed natural history of infantile esotropia
Fouad 2016	Not intervention and comparator of interest: medial rectus muscle recession versus medial rectus muscle pulley posterior fixation; 2 muscle surgery in both groups; included IET and convergence excess ET
Ghali 2017	Not intervention and comparator of interest: bimedial rectus muscle recession versus bimedial rectus muscle elongation
Ing 1992	Not a trial
Kushner 1984	Randomized trial of graded versus standard recessions for infantile esotropia ‐ not one of the interventions looked at in this review
NCT03459092	In this study, participants acquired esotropia after age 1
Simonsz 2005	Non‐randomized trial
TCTR20210210001	Not intervention and comparator of interest: two different dosages of botulinum toxin