Publications by authors named "Hernandez-Andres Rosa"
Article Synopsis
- A study evaluated three treatments for amblyopia in children, comparing two methods that included patching with active vision therapy and one method that used patching alone.
- Results showed significant improvement in visual acuity (VA) and stereoacuity (STA) for the groups that combined patching with vision therapy or monocular perceptual learning, while patching alone was the least effective.
- The findings suggest that effective amblyopia treatment should involve active vision exercises alongside patching to enhance visual performance, particularly for children with poorer initial vision.
Background: To evaluate factors associated with better outcomes from optical treatment alone in amblyopic children from 3 up to 7 years.
Methods: Data extracted from two studies with similar protocols, Amblyopic Treatment Studies 5 (n = 152) and 13 (n = 128) from the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group database, were used to determine by regression analysis the factors associated with improvements in visual acuity in the amblyopic eye, inter-ocular visual acuity difference and stereoacuity. Input variables were aetiology of amblyopia (anisometropic, strabismic and combined-mechanism amblyopia), treatment compliance, visual acuity, interocular visual acuity difference, stereoacuity, tropia size at distance and near, age and refractive error at baseline.
Unlabelled: Contrast sensitivity (CS) in children is not routinely measured in the clinical setting, although CS losses have been found in amblyopic and premature children. Thus simple visual acuity measurements do not completely assess their quality of vision. To evaluate contrast sensitivity in children, a reliable and easy test, sampling the entire spatial frequency range, is necessary.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAmblyopia influences psychomotor and psychosocial skills, although not all studies are unanimous. Different treatments coexist, but the effect on those variables is not clear. This study aims to probe whether children with amblyopia have impairments in these areas and if different optometric treatments reduce them effectively.
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