Reasons why we might want to question the use of patching to treat amblyopia as well as the reliance on visual acuity as the primary outcome measure

BMJ Open Ophthalmology

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Robert F Hess¹ 

[1] Department Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences , McGill University

关键词: Child health (paediatrics);    Public health;    Treatment Medical;    Vision;    Rehabilitation;    Psychophysics;   

DOI  :  10.1136/bmjophth-2021-000914

学科分类：工业工程学

来源: BMJ Publishing Group

【 摘 要 】

Recent evidence suggests that the primary deficit in amblyopia is loss of binocular vision and that the loss of monocular acuity is a secondary consequence. This new understanding derived from recent laboratory studies questions the present therapy and its primary acuity-based endpoint, which have been the gold standard in the treatment of this condition for the past 200 years.Child health (paediatrics)Public healthTreatment MedicalVisionRehabilitationPsychophysicshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited, appropriate credit is given, any changes made indicated, and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/.

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