On the relationship between strabismic amblyopia and eccentric fixation.
Landolt C and grating acuity are compared with that normally expected of the eccentric fixation region for 10 strabismic amblyopes. The findings suggest that 2 populations of amblyopes exist. For some amblyopes visual function is that predicted of the eccentric region used for fixation, whereas for other amblyopes there is a further pathological reduction in visual function. These findings may have an important bearing on the type of orthoptic treatment used for amblyopia.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000550:Amblyopia / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D005260:Female; D005403:Fixation, Ocular; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014792:Visual Acuity