Anisometropic Amblyopia Treated with Spectacle Correction Alone: Possible Factors Predicting Success and Time to Start Patching

Factors Influencing the Success of Treatment in Anisometropic Amblyopia

“…Furthermore, compliance had no significant effect on the success of treatment according to our data. These results are in contrast to several other studies, perhaps due to differing criteria used in defining compliance among studies [8,13,16].…”

“…Hussein et al, demonstrated an increased risk of treatment failure if treatment was started after the age of 6 years old [8]. However, Cobb et al, and Chen et al, found no correlation between age and treatment success [13,14]. Our data demonstrated that age had no significant impact on the success of treatment.…”

“…Final VA worse than 6/9 (n=19) Final VA better than 6/9 (n=20) p-value Good-to-fair compliance 13 blyopia or failed previous treatment. This may represent a group with unique treatment challenges in comparison to a community optometrist practice that treats many other children diagnosed with anisometropia and have good compliance without the need for referral to our unit.…”

The Value of Screening for Amblyopia Revisited

“…The MOTAS studies utilised a period of 18-weeks observation [27][28][29] ; however the PEDIG reported 83% of their study group demonstrated stability of improvement in VA before 15 weeks, however one patient improved for 30 weeks 26 . Improvements in VA have been described to occur after 20 weeks, but not considerably, with the majority of improvement having occurred in weeks 4 to 12 30 .…”

Risk Factors in Recurrence of Amblyopia after Successful Occlusion Therapy

“…[1], [2] Despite an excellent therapeutic success rate, it is difficult to predict whether the improvement would sustain after stopping amblyopia treatment. Current studies shows a wide range of recurrence rates varying between 6 and 67%.…”