title: Deprivation amblyopia and congenital hereditary cataract.
abstract: Amblyopia is a neurodevelopmental disorder of vision associated with decreased visual acuity, poor or absent stereopsis, and suppression of information from one eye.(1,2) Amblyopia may be caused by strabismus (strabismic amblyopia), refractive error (anisometropic amblyopia), or deprivation from obstructed vision (deprivation amblyopia). 1 In the developed world, amblyopia is the most common cause of childhood visual impairment, 3 which reduces quality of life 4 and also almost doubles the lifetime risk of legal blindness.(5, 6) Successful treatment of amblyopia greatly depends on early detection and treatment of predisposing disorders such as congenital cataract, which is the most common cause of deprivational amblyopia. Understanding the genetic causes of congenital cataract leads to more effective screening tests, early detection and treatment of infants and children who are at high risk for hereditary congenital cataract.
authors.affiliation: Mass Eye and Ear Infirmary, Department of Ophthalmology, Harvard Medical School, Boston , Massachusetts , USA and.
authors.forename: Behzad
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Mansouri
authors.forename: Rebecca C
authors.initials: RC
authors.lastname: Stacy
authors.forename: Joshua
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kruger
authors.forename: Dean M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Cestari
mesh_terms: D000550:Amblyopia / Q000235:genetics*; D002386:Cataract / Q000151:congenital*; D006801:Humans; D012683:Sensory Deprivation