Refractive surgery in children with anisometropia as a main stage of amblyopia treatment

Session Details

Session Title: Photoablation

Session Date/Time: Tuesday 13/09/2016 | 14:00-16:00

Paper Time: 15:54

Venue: Hall C2

First Author: : A.Kopylov RUSSIA

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Abstract Details

Purpose:

To develop the criteria for selecting patients with ametropia of different degree for the refractive surgery

Setting:

The Academician S.N. Fyodorov FSАI IRTC “Eye Microsurgery” Tambov branch, Tambov, Russia

Methods:

21 patients (21eyes) with anisometropic amblyopia and spectacle/contact lens intolerance aged 8 to 15 years underwent LASIK surgery according to standard technique. High myopia – 2 operations, mixed and simple myopic astigmatism 3-7 D – 7 operations, high and average hypermetropia with astigmatism up to 7 D – 12 operations.

Results:

In 14 cases we reached the uncorrected visual acuity that was equal to the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) prior to the surgery (up to 0.4 – 6 eyes, 0.5-0.7 – 10 eyes, up to 0.8-0.9 – 5 eyes); visual acuity improvement of 1 line was noted in 2 patients compared with BCVA, of 2 lines – in 4 patients, 3 lines – in 1 patients.

Conclusions:

In spectacle/contact lens intolerance in high ametropia LASIK surgery is necessary being the main stage of amblyopia treatment in children.

Financial Disclosure:

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