title: Binocular refraction in patients with age-related macular degeneration.
abstract: We've been finding possible association of central vision damage with binocular vision disorders in our clients suffering from age-related macular degeneration (ARMD), but whose visual acuity still allowed us to examine their binocular vision. Our findings show that there is a significant number of patients with heterophoria in horizontal, as well as vertical direction. The clients rate the vision with prismatic correction as more comfortable, clearer and long-term tolerable. Getting used to prismatic correction was spontaneous and non-problematic. Based on these results we expect to find possibly the most effective rehabilitation of vision in patients suffering from ARMD.
authors.affiliation: Masaryk University, School of Medicine, Department of Optometry and Orthoptics, Brno, Czech Republic. matejskrbek@seznam.cz
authors.forename: Matej
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Skrbek
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D006801:Humans; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012029:Refraction, Ocular; D015348:Vision, Binocular; D014792:Visual Acuity