title: Anisometropia in children: analysis of a hospital population.
abstract: In a hospital population of 1356 children 64 (4.7%) cases of anisometropia (at least 2 diopters in spherical or cylindrical power) were found. After the exclusion of all children with ocular lesions 53 remained. Twenty-seven (42%) of them had strabismus, which seemed to be related to accommodation effort rather than amount of anisometropia. Amblyopia was present in 17 (53%) of the patients with orthotropic anisometropia. Amblyopia increased with the amount of anisometropia. Therapy in the form of spectacle correction and part-time occlusion was successful in 47%. The success rate was related to the age of presentation.
mesh_terms: D000550:Amblyopia / Q000150:complications; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004948:Esotropia / Q000150:complications; D005099:Exotropia / Q000150:complications; D005139:Eyeglasses; D006801:Humans; D012030:Refractive Errors / Q000150:complications* / Q000628:therapy; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications; D014792:Visual Acuity