J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  1998 Nov;39(11):2803-2809.

Follow-up Results of the Monocular Amblyopia

• Kim YT
• Chang HR

Abstract

We analyzed 52 monocular amblyopia patients, who had never taken amblyopia treatment previously and been followed up more than 3 months after terminating treatment of amblyopiam, about clinical features of monocular amblyopia and factors associated with treatment of amblyopia. Strabismus was the most common cause of monocular amblyopia, followed by anisometropia and visual deprivation in that order. But the average period of treatment was longest in visual deprivation amblyopia, followed by strabismic amblyopia and anisometropic amblyopia. In strabismic amblyopia, the greater the prism diopter, the longer the period of treatment taken. In anisometropic amblyopia, the greater the difference of corrected visual acuity, the longer the period of treatment taken.

Keyword

Factors associated with treatment of amblyopia; Monocular amblyopia

MeSH Terms

Amblyopia*
Anisometropia
Follow-Up Studies*
Humans
Strabismus
Visual Acuity