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Research Article: Factors affecting the benefit of glasses alone in treating childhood amblyopia: an analysis of PEDIG data

Date Published: 2023-10-24

Abstract:
To evaluate factors associated with better outcomes from optical treatment alone in amblyopic children from 3 up to 7 years.

Introduction:
Amblyopia is a unilateral, or infrequently bilateral, developmental disorder of vision associated with significant refractive error in one or both eyes and/or a misalignment of the visual axes [1]. It is usually associated with anisometropia (anisometropic amblyopia), strabismus (strabismic amblyopia) or their combination (combined mechanism) [1]. Its treatment typically consists of correcting the refractive error in combination with occlusion or optical penalization of the better eye, although alternatives to the…

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