Factors Affecting Compliance to Two-Hour Versus Six-Hour Occlusion Therapy Regimens for Treatment of Strabismic Amblyopia
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Factors Affecting Compliance to Two-Hour Versus Six-Hour Occlusion Therapy Regimens for Treatment of Strabismic Amblyopia
Occlusion therapy remains the mainstay of amblyopia treatment. Opinions, however, vary on the number of hours of daily patching that should be prescribed, ranging from as little as 1 or 2 hours to as much as 24 hours per day [2-4]. No study had provided conclusive data on the optimal number of patching hours, until The Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG) conducted a randomized clin...
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NOTWITHSTANDING the vast literature, a complete and satisfactory definition of the clinical picture of amblyopia in strabismus has not yet been produced, and some symptoms are often confused with those of other forms of functional amblyopia. Bangerter (1953) and many other authors embrace in the term " amblyopia ex anopsia" the amblyopia observed in anisometropia, in high ametropia, and in nyst...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical & Experimental Ophthalmology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 2155-9570
DOI: 10.4172/2155-9570.1000110