what are the Treatment of Amblyopia?

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what are the Treatment of Amblyopia? doeas it really need a surgery?

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Amblyopia Treatment

In some cases of refractive amblyopia, normal vision can be achieved simply by fully correcting the refractive errors

in both eyes with glasses or contact lenses. Usually, however, at least some patching of the "good" eye is needed to

force the brain to pay attention to the visual input from the amblyopic eye and enable normal vision development to

occur in that eye.

Treatment of strabismic amblyopia often involves strabismus surgery to straighten the eyes, followed by eye

patching and often some form of vision therapy (also called orthoptics) to help both eyes work together equally as a

team.

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New evidence from a laboratory study and a pilot clinical trial confirms the promise of a simple treatment for amblyopia, or "lazy eye," according to researchers from the U.S. and China.

The treatment was effective on 20-year-old subjects. Amblyopia was considered mostly irreversible after age eight.

Many amblyopes, especially in developing countries, are diagnosed too late for conventional treatment with an eye patch. The disorder affects about nine million people in the U.S. alone.

Results from the laboratory study will be published online the week of Mar. 3 in PNAS Early Edition.

Patients seeking treatment will need to wait for eye doctors to adopt the non-surgical procedure in their clinics, said Zhong-Lin Lu, the University of Southern California neuroscientist who led the research group.