Ambliopia por estrabismo: estudo retrospectivo de pacientes em hospital universitário

Abstract

The study showed that compliance with patching plays a fundamental role in therapeutic efficacy. Thus, age at the beginning of treatment alone did not influence the success rate since it was possible to obtain good compliance independent of age. In addition, worse results were associated with severe amblyopia and less compliance.

Strabismic amblyopia: compliance with occlusion treatment in a tertiary hospital in Midwestern Brazil

“…The initial mean age was 6.6 years and the final mean age was 8.4 years, similar to the age bands studied by other authors. (1,15) Age at the end of treatment was significantly higher in PCG as demonstrate in Table 1 (9.1 years; p = 0.04). The same was found by Wallace et al (9) in a European population and demonstrates that the treatment can be prolonged due to lack of compliance.…”

“…Reproducibility studies showed that only a change in visual acuity of 0.2 logMar or more can be considered real. (15) Therefore, the visual acuity changes were calculated according to this criterion. Residual amblyopia, i.e.…”

“…(6) The minimum sample size required for this study was 220 patients with strabismic amblyopia who underwent occlusion treatment, calculated with a sampling error of 6,48%, at a 95% confidence interval, and significance at p < 0.05. (14)(15)(16) Variables presented as means of PCG and CG were compared using the Student's t-test for independent data, whereas those of PCG and subgroups were compared using the one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Variables presented in absolute numbers in PCG and CG were compared using the Mann-Whitney U test, while those in PCG and subgroups were compared using the Chi-square test (or the Kruskal-Wallis test if any group had less than five patients in the comparison).…”

Amblyopia: neural basis and therapeutic approaches

“…It can be used in association with other therapeutic modalities (19,40,42) . Parents' participation is essential for successful treatment; therefore, they should be aware of the necessity, urgency, and potential effectiveness of the therapeutic program (43) . Despite having been used for many years, occlusion therapy still needs to be investigated as to the neural events responsible for reversal of the symptoms (39) .…”

Prevenção à cegueira em crianças de 3 a 6 anos assistidas pelo programa de saúde da família (PSF) do Morro do Alemão - Rio de Janeiro

“…N o Brasil, existem 98 milhões de pessoas comalgum tipo de deficiência visual, dos quais 80 milhões não têm acesso a qualquer tratamento (1)(2)(3)(4) . Em relação à atenção a saúde ocular infantil, não há programa público de prevenção à cegueira ou deficiência visual em crianças com idade pré-escolar a partir de 3 anos.…”