Objectives To evaluate the risk factors for strabismus in patients with anisometropia by comparing degree of anisometropia, depth of amblyopia, and binocular visual function in anisometropic patients with and without strabismus. Materials and Methods Sixty-five anisometropic patients older than 5 years with amblyopia in one eye who were followed in the Ankara University Faculty of Medicine, D...

Here we report a case of a congenital, free-floating pigmented vitreous cyst in a child. A 12-year-old male was referred to the Ophthalmology Clinic for amblyopia on his left eye. Ophthalmologic examination revealed that the visual acuity was 20/20 in the right eye and 20/35 in the left eye. Findings of the anterior segment examination were normal. On dilated fundus examination, a free-floating...

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...

BACKGROUND Amblyopia treatment is not standardised and differences between centres and countries have not been systematically investigated. This survey compares the different patterns of orthoptic treatment of amblyopia in the United Kingdom (UK) and three German speaking countries (GSC). METHODS Questionnaires were sent to orthoptists in the UK and the GSC asking for their preferred choices ...

PURPOSE Fixational saccades shift the foveal image to counteract visual fading related to neural adaptation. Drifts are slow eye movements between two adjacent fixational saccades. We quantified fixational saccades and asked whether their changes could be attributed to pathologic drifts seen in amblyopia, one of the most common causes of blindness in childhood. METHODS Thirty-six pediatric su...

introduction: amblyopia is reduced vision in an eye that has not received adequate use during early childhood.  the most common cause of unilateral visual loss in children is amblyopia with prevalence rate of 1-4 percent in pre-school children . however, effective treatments may prevent intensive complication. this study was done to assess the treatment effects of amplyopia patients who have re...

Amsler's charts have long proved to be very useful for detecting organic macular and paramacular disorders. The chart consists of a grid of lines with a central fixation dot, the whole chart at 30 cm. distance subtending an angle of 200 (Amsler, I949). In the examination of functional amblyopia, we have found that the use of an Amsler chart can be very helpful in understanding the difference be...

In the past 20 years, there has been a great advancement in knowledge pertaining to compliance with amblyopia treatments. The occlusion dose monitor introduced quantitative monitoring methods in patching, which sparked our initial understanding of the dose-response relationship for patching amblyopia treatment. This review focuses on current compliance knowledge and the impact it has on patchin...

Methods of detection and treatment of amblyopia as a developmental visual defect are reviewed. Traditional occlusion therapy is compared with recent therapy techniques using square-wave grating patterns as stimuli to increase visual sensitivity. Both methods can help manage amblyopia particularly during stages of early visual development. It is found that the grating pattern stimuli are not in ...