Amblyopia: A review of unmet needs, current treatment options, and emerging therapies

BUI Emmanuel, JG BURNS, B THOMPSON - Survey of Ophthalmology, 2023 - Elsevier
Amblyopia is a global public health issue with extensive, multifaceted impacts on vision and
quality of life (QoL) for both patients and families. Geographical variation exists in the …

[HTML][HTML] An updated review about perceptual learning as a treatment for amblyopia

A Rodán, EC Marroquín, LCJ García - Journal of optometry, 2022 - Elsevier
The purpose of our work is to do an update of recent investigations about amblyopia
treatment based on perceptual learning, dichoptic training and videogames. Therefore, we …

Emerging therapies for amblyopia

MM Falcone, DG Hunter, ED Gaier - Seminars in ophthalmology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Traditional therapies to treat amblyopia, such as optical correction or occlusion/penalization
of the non-amblyopic eye, are efficacious but are not without limitations such as poor …

Improved adherence and treatment outcomes with an engaging, personalized digital therapeutic in amblyopia

S Xiao, ED Gaier, ML Mazow, AU Stout, DA Travers… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Given the prevalence of poor adherence to therapy and the biases of self-reporting across
healthcare, we hypothesized that an engaging, personalized therapy may improve …

Binocular versus standard occlusion or blurring treatment for unilateral amblyopia in children aged three to eight years

V Tailor, S Ludden, M Bossi, C Bunce… - Cochrane Database …, 2022 - cochranelibrary.com
Background Current treatments for amblyopia, typically patching or pharmacological
blurring, have limited success. Less than two‐thirds of children achieve good acuity of 0.20 …

Current management of amblyopia with new technologies for binocular treatment

S Boniquet-Sanchez, N Sabater-Cruz - Vision, 2021 - mdpi.com
Amblyopia is the most common cause of monocular poor vision affecting up to 3.7% of the
global population. Classically, the first step in treatment has been optical correction, followed …

Neuroplasticity in older adults revealed by temporary occlusion of one eye

BN Nguyen, M Malavita, OL Carter, AM McKendrick - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Occluding one eye for several hours alters visual experience. Specifically, occluding one
eye shifts the balance of ocular dominance to favour the recently deprived eye, which can be …

Recent treatment advances in amblyopia

K Meier, K Tarczy-Hornoch - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Occlusion therapy has a long history as the gold standard treatment for amblyopia. Over the
past two decades, large multicenter randomized controlled trials and objective dose …

Binocular treatment for individual with amblyopia: A systematic review and meta-analysis

L Jin, Y Fang, C Jin - Medicine, 2022 - journals.lww.com
Objective: To assess the efficacy of binocular treatment for individual with amblyopia.
Methods: In this meta-analysis, a comprehensive search of literatures was performed from …

Leveraging neural plasticity for the treatment of amblyopia

EE Birch, KR Duffy - Survey of Ophthalmology, 2024 - Elsevier
Amblyopia is a form of visual cortical impairment that arises from abnormal visual
experience early in life. Most often, amblyopia is a unilateral visual impairment that can …