REVIEW ARTICLE
Visual Acuity Improvement in Continuous vs Divided Occlusion in Anisometropic Amblyopia
Irawati Irfani*, Feri Feriyanto, Primawita Oktarima, Arief Kartasasmita
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 12
First Page: 1
Last Page: 6
Publisher ID: TOOPHTJ-12-1
DOI: 10.2174/1874364101812010001
Article History:
Received Date: 20/9/2017Revision Received Date: 29/12/2017
Acceptance Date: 22/01/2018
Electronic publication date: 14/02/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Purpose:
To compare visual acuity improvement between continuous and split part-time occlusion for the treatment of moderate and severe anisometropic amblyopia.
Methods:
Randomised clinical trials in 6 – 13 y.o children with moderate and severe anisometropic amblyopia. Each patient was consecutively selected with continuous or split part-time occlusion. Best corrected visual acuity’s improvement was followed up to six weeks and statistical data were analyzed using chi square and unpaired t-test.
Results:
Best corrected visual acuity’s improvement was comparable between continuous and split part-time occlusion (0.20±0.27 vs 0.21±0.25; p = 0.79).
Conclusion:
Split part-time occlusion may be considered as an alternative treatment for moderate and severe anisometropic amblyopia treatment.
