2004
DOI: 10.1590/s0004-27492004000200004
|View full text |Cite
|
Sign up to set email alerts
|

Adesão ao tratamento da ambliopia

Abstract: INTRODUÇÃOAmbliopia classicamente significa baixa visão em olho no qual não se detecta alteração orgânica que a justifique (1) . Mais recentemente o significado de ambliopia tem se ampliado, significando baixa visão com ou sem lesão orgânica (2) . Porém, o assunto é polêmico e esta definição não é aceita por todos.A mais importante das modalidades terapêuticas empregadas para o tratamento da ambliopia é a oclusão do olho de melhor visão, com a finalidade de estimular o olho com baixa visão, sendo a oclusão con… Show more

Help me understand this report

Search citation statements

Order By: Relevance

Paper Sections

Select...
4
1

Citation Types

2
13
0
4

Year Published

2009
2009
2023
2023

Publication Types

Select...
4
1

Relationship

0
5

Authors

Journals

citations
Cited by 5 publications
(19 citation statements)
references
References 8 publications
(13 reference statements)
2
13
0
4
Order By: Relevance
“…Visual acuity usually develops starting at birth and vision should improve until around the age of 7 years, a time when visual development is completed in most children (13) . Considering that the vision development process is stabilized, age is disregarded as an important indicator for false results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Visual acuity usually develops starting at birth and vision should improve until around the age of 7 years, a time when visual development is completed in most children (13) . Considering that the vision development process is stabilized, age is disregarded as an important indicator for false results.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…This tends to augment visual acuity of the amblyopic eye and to improve binocular function, as long as it is correctly performed (39) . Treatment schedules vary from months to years (40) but last 3 years on average (39) . American and British guidelines both advise daily occlusion for 2 h for moderate and 6 h for severe amblyopia.…”
Section: Main Treatmentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…American and British guidelines both advise daily occlusion for 2 h for moderate and 6 h for severe amblyopia. However, 10 or more hours have also been reported (40) . Occlusion therapy (also called patching) should be monitored frequently as to its results (41) .…”
Section: Main Treatmentsmentioning
confidence: 99%
See 2 more Smart Citations