What is it about?
Children with anisometropic amblyopia who accommodate asymmetrically have poorer outcomes to their treatment
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Why is it important?
Accommodation is rarely tested during amblyopia treatment, but it might help in the diagnosis and prognosis of individual cases
Perspectives
Accommodation is usually considered to be symmetrical, but thinking about what is might mean if it was not equal in each eye might help us tailor and develop treatments.
Professor Anna Horwood
University of Reading
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This page is a summary of: The effect of asymmetrical accommodation on anisometropic amblyopia treatment outcomes, Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, August 2019, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2019.05.010.
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