PURPOSE To compare macular thickness of the normal fellow eye to that of the amblyopic eye using optical coherence tomography (OCT) in children with unilateral high myopia. Relationships between macular thickness and magnitude of myopic anisometropia, axial length, and visual acuity (VA) were investigated. METHODS Thirty-one children with a mean age of 9.56 years were recruited. Macular thick...

Background: Anisometropia was a challenge for ophthalmologists to treat unilateral refraction condition. Failure of build-up the same clear image from two eyes together was the major cause for quitting spectacle wearing, which usually led to amblyopia in the eye with more myope. Case presentation: The two patients with anisometropia were found that the two eyeballs position were asymmetric by p...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the clinical performance of the Pediatric Vision Screener (PVS) in children in a pediatric ophthalmology office setting. METHODS Seventy-seven subjects between 2 and 18 years of age received gold-standard orthoptic examinations and were classified as at risk for amblyopia if strabismus or anisometropia (>1.50 diopters) was present. Strabismus was subclassified as variabl...

BACKGROUND To describe associations between familial exudative vitreoretinopathy (FEVR) and refractive status. METHODS We conducted retrospective studies of patients with clinical diagnoses of familial exudative vitreoretinopathy from June 1986 through September 2000. All patients had cycloplegic refraction, visual acuity with correction, and underwent fundus examination. Ocular history since...

We report an analysis of 3,243 cases of squint examined at a health department clinic and an eye hospital. The estimated prevalence of squint at the age of 6 years is 4.3%, similar to estimates in other surveys in England. Incidence of onset is highest in the third year of life, and, if this distribution reflects the incidence in the community, it represents one characteristic pattern of distri...

A technique for providing amblyopes with auditory feedback signals of eye position errors is described. With auditory cues, 12 adult eccentrically fixing amblyopes with strabismus and/or anisometropia have been able to maintain steady and foveal fixation with the amblyopic eye. The changes observed in fixation patterns with auditory feedback were both quantitative and qualitative; with such fee...