Download Free PDF The Amblyopia Treatment Studies and Your Practice Michael Repka 2006, Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Download Free PDF Related Papers Int J Clin Rev Anterior Segment Optical Coherence Tomography and Ultrasound Biomicroscopy in Glaucoma 2011 • Sancy Low Download Free PDF View PDF filexlib. Results The mainstay of treatment for amblyopia has been based on increasing visual stimulation of the amblyopic eye by occlusion, atropine, or optical penalization of the dominant eye. It has Europe PMC is an archive of life sciences journal literature. orcid.org
AMBLYOPIA TREATMENT STUDY ATS 7 OBJECTIVE To determine the amount and time course of binocular visual acuity improvement during treatment of bilateral refractive amblyopia in 3 - <10 years of age METHODS: 113 children with previously untreated bilateral refractive amblyopia were provided with optimal spectacle correction. Bilateral refractive
The traditional treatment for amblyopia has been to correct the refractive error and occlude the non-amblyopic eye. Compliance, however, with patching is a significant problem. The aim of this study was to investigate the parental knowledge of amblyopia and its treatment.
The treatment of amblyopia, particularly anisometropic (difference in refractive correction) and/or strabismic (turn of one eye) amblyopia has long been a challenge for many clinicians. Impact of patching and atropine treatment on the child and family in the amblyopia treatment study. Arch Ophthalmol, 121 (2003), pp. 1625-1632. View Record To the Editor. Dr. Lempert selected cross-sectional pretreatment visual acuity data from our earlier study of moderate amblyopia to suggest that there is spontaneous improvement in visual acuity of amblyopic eyes occurring over a four-year span between "early and late childhood." 1 In fact, there was only a 0.7 line difference in mean amblyopic eye acuity before treatment between the
Treatment with atropine eye drops results in blurred vision in the stronger eye, subsequently promoting the overuse/improvement of the weaker eye (Chen and Cotter, 2016; Holmes & Levi, 2018)
The initial treatment of amblyopia depends on the underlying cause. Deprivation amblyopia should first be treated by removing the obstructive pathology. This may be cataract surgery, retinal detachment repair, corneal surgery, or treatment for a variety of other ocular pathologies. Refractive amblyopia often is the most amenable to treatment.
Currently, the same research group performs the BRAVO study, a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled multicenter trial in order to assess the effectiveness of a novel video game-based binocular treatment for amblyopia. The BRAVO study includes 108 participants aged 7 years or older and the results will indicate whether a binocular
When deciding whether or not to treat amblyopia, age should not be a factor; amblyopia has been successfully treated in patients seven to 17 years of age.17 In a study of amblyopia treatment in children of this age range, 53% of patients treated with spectacle correction, patching and atropine improved by at least 10 letters after 24 weeks of
193 our prior Amblyopia Treatment Study protocols on patients in this age range, we have found no 194 indication that the response to patching treatment is related to age. Therefore, it is highly unlikely 195 that a delay in initiating treatment of weeks or even months could be harmful. 196 197 References 198 199 1.
193 our prior Amblyopia Treatment Study prot