title: Reading capacity in cases of 'cured' strabismic amblyopia.
abstract: Fifty cases of cured amblyopia were examined in relation to distance vision, near vision, and reading capacity. Occlusion had been abandoned at age 8; the examination was made at age 12. Although linear vision for distance and near was full, reading capacity was markedly impaired. In order to prevent this 'reading amblyopia', sneaking-out or tapering-off occlusion with alternating calibrated filters is continued until the child can read fluently with each eye.
mesh_terms: D000550:Amblyopia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D013285:Strabismus / Q000150:complications; D014785:Vision, Ocular