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## Purpose: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effects of amblyopia on children's reading performance after the successful patching treatment with 20/20 visual acuity (VA) in the treated eye. Methods: The treated amblyopes group included 10 children with strabismic amblyopia diagnosed on the first visit presenting VA equal or better than 0.0 logMAR (20/20 Snellen) in the better vision eye and VA worse than 0.2 logMAR (20/32 Snellen) in the worse eye that underwent patching treatment of amblyopia reaching a final VA equal to 0.0 logMAR in the treated eye. The control group comprised 10 children matched by age, gender and school-grade with no visual disorders. Reading performance was evaluated according to reading acuity (RA), critical print size (CPS), reading speed (RS) at 0.7 logMAR, and maximum reading speed (MRS) using the MNREAD chart. Results: Binocular reading performance was compared between groups and no statistically significant differences were found on RA, CPS, RS, or MRS (p > 0.05). When analyzing monocular reading performances of treated amblyopes, a worse RA (p = 0.04) and CPS (p = 0.04) were observed on the previously amblyopic eye when compared to the fel

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Author

Arthur Gustavo Fernandes; Nívea Nunes Ferraz

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Published

2021

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)