PURPOSE To determine the outcome of part-time occlusion therapy in children with anisometropic amblyopia detected after they were 8 years of age. METHODS We analyzed 29 eyes with anisometropic amblyopia in children 8 years of age and older. The mean age was 8.79 +/- 0.98 (range 8-12) years old. The subjects whose best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) did not improve by two lines or better withi...

Amblyopia is the most common cause of preventable blindness in children and young adults. Most of the amblyopic visual loss is reversible if detected and treated at appropriate time. It affects 1.0 to 5.0% of the general population. Various treatment modalities have been tried like refractive correction, patching (both full time and part time), penalization and pharmacological therapy. Refracti...

Normal visual development requires unimpeded and coordinated input from each eye to the visual cortex during an early critical period of cortical maturation. Disrupted binocular vision during this critical period, due to visual deprivation (e.g. congenital cataract), misalignment of the eyes (strabismus) or unequal refrac-tive error (anisometropia), can lead to amblyopia, a neurodevelop-mental ...

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...

In individuals with abnormal binocular vision, such as strabismics and anisometropes, it is common for all or part of one eye's view to be suppressed so binocular confusion and diplopia are eliminated. We examined the relation between the depth of suppression (the amount by which the monocular contrast increment threshold for an eye was elevated by stimulation in the contralateral eye) and the ...

Aim: To identify which factors influence the final visual acuity in children with anisometropic amblyopia. Methods: A retrospective analysis of 112 children with anisometropic amblyopia, identified from examining all case notes of children who had failed preschool or school screening. Results: The age at presentation had no effect on the final visual outcome (p=0.804). Both the degree of refrac...

AIM To identify which factors influence the final visual acuity in children with anisometropic amblyopia. METHODS A retrospective analysis of 112 children with anisometropic amblyopia, identified from examining all case notes of children who had failed preschool or school screening. RESULTS The age at presentation had no effect on the final visual outcome (p=0.804). Both the degree of refra...

PURPOSE To perform an epidemiologic study in students in Natal/Brazil, with relation to refractional anisometropia, evaluating criteria such as: gender, age, and association with strabismus and amblyopia. METHODS A study of 1,024 students randomly selected from several districts of Natal/Brazil was undertaken by the Department of Ophthalmology of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte ...