Purpose: To determine the prevalence of amblyopia, anisometropia, and strabismus in schoolchildren of Shiraz, Iran.Materials and Methods: A random cluster sampling was used in a cross-sectional study on schoolchildren in Shiraz. Cycloplegic refraction was performed in elementary and middle school children and high school students had non-cylcoplegic refraction. Uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were recorded for each participant. Anisometropia was defined as spherical equivalent (SE) refraction difference 1.00D or more between two eyes. Amblyopia was distinguished as a reduction of BCVA to 20/30 or less in one eye or 2-line interocular optotype acuity differences in the absence of pathological causes. Cover test was performed for investigating of strabismus.Results: Mean age of 2638 schoolchildren was 12.5 years (response rate?=?86.06%). Prevalence of anisometropia was 2.31% (95% confidence interval [CI], 1.45 to 3.16). 2.29% of schoolchildren (95% CI, 1.46 to 3.14) were amblyopic. The prevalence of amblyopia in boys and girls was 2.32% and 2.26%, respectively (p?=?0.945). Anisometropic amblyopia was found in 58.1% of the amblyopic subjects. The strabismus prevalence was 2.02% (95% CI, 1.18 to 2.85). The prevalence of exotropia and esotropia was 1.30% and 0.59%, respectively.Conclusions: Results of this study showed that the prevalence of anisometropia, amblyopia, and strabismus are in the mid range. The etiology of amblyopia was often refractive, mostly astigmatic, and non-strabismic. Exotropia prevalence increased with age and was the most common strabismus type. 相似文献
Purpose:To quantitatively correlate the loss of stereopsis by induced anisometropia with its effect on tasks that require binocular vision and stereopsis, such as ophthalmic surgery in a simulated environment.Methods:Thirty-nine ophthalmic residents with best-corrected visual acuity of 20/20 or better OU, with normal binocular vision and stereopsis, were recruited for the study. Anisometropia was induced using spherical and cylindrical trial lenses from +1D to +5D in a trial frame. The residents performed an anterior chamber navigation exercise on the EYESi simulator and the surgical score at baseline and for each level of induced anisometropia was noted. Near stereopsis was assessed by the Randot test and TNO test at baseline and for each level of induced anisometropia.Results:Stereoacuity on the Randot test and TNO test were 30 (95% CI, 25.9–34.1) and 44.4 (95% CI, 28.5–60.3) arcseconds, respectively which reduced to 65.5 (95% CI, 48.7–82.3) and 75.9 (95% CI, 15.5–136.3) arcseconds at anisometropia of +1D Sph (P < 0.001) and 380 (95% CI, 309.9–450.1) and 1922.1 (95% CI, 1582.5–2261.7) arcseconds for +5D Sph, respectively for the two tests, (P < 0.001). The corresponding surgical score reduced from 93.8 (95% CI, 91.1–96.7) to 87.5 (95% CI, 79.2–95.8, P < 0.001) for 1 DSph and 55.97 (95% CI, 38.3–73.7, P < 0.001) for 5DSph. There was a strong negative correlation between stereopsis scores and surgical task scores (Spearman''s rho -0.86, P value <0.001) Similar changes were seen for anisometropia induced with cylindrical powers.Conclusion:Induced anisometropia is associated with a significant diminution in surgical task scores in a simulated environment and this is correlated with the deterioration in stereoacuity. Assessment of stereopsis may be included as a regular part of the screening procedure for ophthalmic trainee residents. 相似文献
Introduction: Children presenting with strabismus and mixed (anisometropic/strabismic) amblyopia are managed by a local protocol as per guidelines from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists. Decisions regarding intervention for occlusion are currently delayed until a 22 week review allowing for refractive adaptation, with intermediate reviews at 6 and 14 weeks. Purpose: The purpose of this audit was to determine adherence to the protocol and the benefit of the 14 week review. Materials and Methods: We performed a prospective data collection of all children attending the orthoptic department with strabismus without pathology, both with and without unequal vision, from October 2007 to July 2008 managed using the protocol. Results: 26 patients were eligible. Mean age at presentation was 3.3 years (1.4 to 6.5). Cycloplegic spherical equivalent (SE) mean was 2.6 dioptres (?2.25 to +7.25). Five patients failed to comply with the protocol; one patient was listed surgery, four patients commenced premature occlusion. At presentation 8 patients had equal vision (defined as < 0.1 logMAR difference) between the two eyes or would only perform BEO vision, by week 14, over 60% were found to have a difference in vision between the eyes, despite refraction correction (mean 0.4 logMAR, range 0 to 1.4 logMAR). In a subgroup of patients (n = 8 at 6 weeks) with a small discrepancy of vision between the eyes (0.1 to 0.5 logMAR) there was no progressive worsening of vision during the period of observation and 50% of patients improved spontaneously, although two patients were lost to follow up. In the subgroup (n = 10 at 6 weeks) with a large discrepancy between the eyes (> 0.5 logMAR), all patients ultimately required occlusion, and there was minimal improvement in only three patients. Conclusion: Recorded vision at 6 weeks is more informative for making treatment decisions than that recorded at presentation. The 14 week review confers no benefit to those with reliable and improving visual acuity. Those patients presenting with a large discrepancy in visual acuity do not improve after 14 weeks and we feel that these patients could be occluded at 6 weeks. We propose a new algorithm for the treatment of this patient group. 相似文献