Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus
Major articleComparison of the visual effects of Fresnel prisms in normal and amblyopic eyes
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Materials and Methods
This was a prospective case-controlled study. Participants with amblyopia were recruited from those patients with a history of unilateral amblyopia, attending an orthoptic clinic at one location (Altnagelvin Area Hospital, Londonderry, UK) and were tested by one investigator (DW). This study received ethical approval from the Office for Research Ethics Committees Northern Ireland and from the National Health Service Trust, where the research was conducted. All participants read an informational
Results
Ten individuals with amblyopia (5 male, 5 female subjects; mean age, 22.6 years; range, 11-33 years) and 9 controls (3 male, 6 female subjects; mean age, 26.2 years; range, 21-45 years) participated. Of the 10 participants with amblyopia, 5 had strabismic amblyopia, 4 had mixed strabismic and anisometropic amblyopia, and 1 had anisometropic amblyopia. Of the amblyopia group, 6 wore glasses. The spherical equivalent of refractive correction for the amblyopic eyes ranged from −0.50 D to + 6.00 D.
Visual Acuity
This study showed that visual acuity with Fresnel prisms decreases with increasing prism power in control eyes and in both the amblyopic and the sound eyes of amblyopic participants (Figure 1). The effect on visual acuity in the control eyes and sound eyes of amblyopic participants was similar. Baseline visual acuity in amblyopic eyes was lower than in the other groups, and the amount of decrease in visual acuity with prism was less than the decrease found for both control eyes and sound eyes.
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