In this study we explored the possibility of using a dichoptic global motion technique to measure interocular suppression in children with amblyopia. We compared children (5-16 years old) with unilateral anisometropic and/or strabismic amblyopia to age-matched control children. Under dichoptic viewing conditions, contrast interference thresholds were determined with a global motion direction-di...

AIMS To assess calcarine activation with functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in patients with anisometropic and strabismic amblyopia. METHODS 14 amblyopes (eight anisometropic and six strabismic) were studied with fMRI using stimuli of checkerboards of various checker sizes and temporal frequencies. While T2* weighted MRI were obtained every 3 seconds for 6 minutes, patients viewed t...

AIMS The study aimed to assess the effect of initial visual acuity and type of amblyopia on the long term results of successfully treated amblyopia. METHODS The visual acuity of 94 patients, who had been successfully treated for unilateral amblyopia by occlusion of the good eye and followed up to the age of 9 years, was examined 6.4 years, on average, after cessation of treatment. Patients we...

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...

Strabismus, the misalignment of the visual axis of one eye relative to that of the other eye, reduces visual acuity in the affected eye. Several processes contributing to that loss are: amblyopia, which results in a chronic acuity loss whether or not the fellow eye is viewing; strabismic deviation, which shifts the image of an acuity target onto more peripheral, and therefore less acute, retina...

PURPOSE Evidence is accumulating that suppression may be the cause of amblyopia rather than a secondary consequence of mismatched retinal images. For example, treatment interventions that target suppression may lead to better binocular and monocular outcomes. Furthermore, it has recently been demonstrated that the measurement of suppression may have prognostic value for patching therapy. For th...

BACKGROUND To investigate macular retinal and choroidal thickness in amblyopic eyes compared to that in fellow and normal eyes using swept-source optical coherence tomography (SS-OCT). METHODS This study examined 31 patients with hyperopic anisometropic amblyopia (6.9 ± 3.8 years, mean ± standard deviation), 15 patients with strabismic amblyopia without anisometropia (7.9 ± 4.2 years), and 24...

(1) Background: Amblyopia is an ocular condition leading to structural and functional changes. The relationship between these changes complex remains poorly understood. (2) Methods: Participants included 31 children aged 5 9 years with strabismic (n = 9), anisometropic 16) mixed 6) unilateral amblyopia, 14 age-matched non-amblyopic children. 95% 63% Bivariate Contour Ellipse Area (BCEA), axial ...

Stereoscopic depth perception may be obtained from small retinal disparities that can be fused for single vision (fine stereopsis), but reliable depth information is also obtained from larger disparities that produce double vision (coarse stereopsis). Here we assess the possibility that the early development of coarse stereopsis makes it resilient to the factors that cause amblyopia by comparin...