ALLMedicine™ Amblyopia Center

Aug 15th, 2022 - Vision is the sense which we rely on the most to interact with the environment and its integrity is fundamental for the quality of our life. However, around the globe, more than 1 billion people are affected by debilitating vision deficits. Theref...

Aug 12th, 2022 - Physical activity is an essential part of childhood physical and mental development. Recent research identified visual problems associated with a sedentary lifestyle in children in Ireland. This study explored the association between visual functi...

Aug 10th, 2022 - In the process of clinical diagnosis and treatment of amblyopia, we have found that the treatment time of this disease was significantly different among different patients. The purpose of this study was to compare the efficacy of binocular vision ...

Aug 9th, 2022 - To compare a smartphone-based dichoptic video game with occlusion therapy in children with anisometropic amblyopia. In this prospective, randomized, interventional study, 55 children aged 5 to 15 years with anisometropic amblyopia were randomized ...

Aug 9th, 2022 - To evaluate the long-term efficacy of anterior chamber iris-fixated phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) implantation in the treatment of high myopic (> -9.00 diopters [D]) or hyperopic (> +6.00 D) anisometropia in children with intolerance to spectacle...

Nov 27th, 2019 - As eye disease before age 5 years is common, some form of vision screening should be performed on children before attending primary school. However, the lack of consistent national recommendations creates confusion for patients, eye care professio...

Jan 7th, 2015 - This article provides recommendations for screening children aged 36 to younger than 72 months for eye and visual system disorders. The recommendations were developed by the National Expert Panel to the National Center for Children's Vision and Ey...

Jan 31st, 2013 - In 2003 the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus Vision Screening Committee proposed criteria for automated preschool vision screening. Recent literature from epidemiologic and natural history studies, randomized control...

Aug 8th, 2022 - Detect changes in retinal vessel density in the superficial and deep capillary plexuses using OCTA in children with anisometropic amblyopia

Aug 1st, 2022 - The study consists of two parts, Part A: randomized, single masked PoC study in children 4 to 7 years old at Screening, and Part B: open-label substudy in children 8 to 12 year old at Screening.

Jul 26th, 2022 - The purpose of this study is to determine the feasibility of the OKKO Space Academy app as a vision measuring and home-monitoring tool for children aged 3-8 years undergoing amblyopia treatment. There are three objectives to this work: Determine t...

Jul 25th, 2022 - This study is designed to answer the question: What if the Intermittent Occlusion (IO-therapy) glasses were prescribed all day (12-hours) in which the total time of treatment only took 4 weeks instead of the current treatment time (4 hours) in whi...

Jul 22nd, 2022 - The United States Preventive Services Task Force has recommended early screening in children in order to detect vision abnormalities that could result in amblyopia, a condition in which there is abnormal brain development when there is suboptimal ...

Jun 9th, 2022 - Jessica Oberoi, 13, can't exactly remember when her eyesight started getting blurry. All she knows is that she had to squint to see the whiteboard at school. It wasn't until last fall when her eighth grade class in Bloomington, Indiana, got vision...

Oct 21st, 2021 - The FDA approved the digital therapeutic device Luminopia One for pediatric amblyopia, or lazy eye. The device is approved for children ages 4 to 7 years with anisometropia and/or strabismus and is available by prescription only. By means of a vir...

Oct 19th, 2021 - NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Two-thirds of patients with diabetes achieve a good visual outcome of 20/40 or better after cataract surgery, according to one of the largest studies to assess visual acuity in people with diabetes undergoing cataract s...

Oct 4th, 2021 - A handheld vision screening device to test for amblyopia and strabismus has been found to have a sensitivity of 100%, a specificity of 85%, and a median acquisition time of 28 seconds, according to a study published in the Journal of American Asso...

Sep 17th, 2021 - The visual disorder amblyopia, also known as "lazy eye," can be impossible to treat once children reach adolescence. Now, a new Israel study links cases in older teenagers to higher rates of poverty, below-average cognitive scores, immigrant statu...