Treating amblyopia in adults with prosthetic occluding contact lenses

• Published in: Acta ophthalmologica (Oxford, England) Vol. 96; no. 3; pp. e347 - e354
• Main Authors: Garcia‐Romo, Esperanza, Perez‐Rico, Consuelo, Roldán‐Díaz, Isabel, Arévalo‐Serrano, Juan, Blanco, Román
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Wiley Subscription Services, Inc 01.05.2018
• Subjects: Acceptability; Acuity; amblyopia; Contact lenses; Eye; Feasibility studies; Latency; multifocal visual evoked potentials; Occlusion; Patching; Prostheses; prosthetic occluding contact lenses; Quality of life; Strabismus; Visual acuity; Visual evoked potentials; visual pathway; Visual perception; multifocal visual evoked potentials; amblyopia; visual pathway; prosthetic occluding contact lenses

Purpose To investigate the feasibility, effectiveness and acceptability of using prosthetic occluding contact lenses (OCLs) to treat moderate amblyopia in adults and of the role of the multifocal visual evoked potential (mfVEP) as a predictor of postamblyopic therapy. Methods A comparative, prospect...