Purpose Suppression has a key role in the etiology of amblyopia, and contrast-balanced binocular treatment can overcome suppression and improve visual acuity. Quantitative assessment of suppression could have a role in managing amblyopia. We describe a novel eye chart to assess suppression in children. Methods We enrolled 100 children (7-12 years; 63 amblyopic, 25 nonamblyopic with strabismus...

OBJECTIVE To assess the role of low vision devices in visual rehabilitation of patients with Stargardt's disease. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Khyber Institute of Ophthalmic Medical Sciences, Hayatabad Medical Complex, Peshawar, Pakistan, from June 2003 to June 2005. PATIENTS AND METHODS Patients diagnosed as having Stargardt's disease and confirmed by t...

Aim: The present study aims to determine the effectiveness of bates exercise on myopia.Methods and Materials: A one group pretest posttest design was used for study. total 60 samples were collected using non probability sampling technique children with myopia as samples. demographic data visual acuity snellen chart from samples, followed by that conducted chart. After a period intervention exer...

The present study investigated how gaze following eye movements are affected by stimulus contrast and spatial frequency and by aberrations in central visual acuity due to refractive errors. We measured 30 healthy subjects with a range of visual acuities but without any refractive correction. Visual acuity was tested using a Landolt-C chart. Subjects were divided into three groups with low, inte...

During routine work in the Orthoptic Department, we noticed that, in some children who were having their visual acuity tested by the Snellen method for the first time, the results proved worse than those recorded previously by the Sheridan Gardiner method. The majority of patients concerned had been having occlusion for amblyopia, which was either presumed or shown to exist by a test of the vis...