TY - JOUR AU - Ashraf, Ammarah AU - Masud, Hannan AU - Rabbani, Shafaq AU - Noor, Palwasha PY - 2021/10/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - EFFECT OF PART-TIME PATCHING THERAPY ON VISUAL OUTCOME IN PATIENTS WITH ANISOMETROPIC AMBLYOPIA VISITING AFIO RAWALPINDI JF - Pakistan Armed Forces Medical Journal JA - PAFMJ VL - 71 IS - 5 SE - Original Articles DO - 10.51253/pafmj.v71i5.5525 UR - https://pafmj.org/PAFMJ/article/view/5525 SP - 1774-77 AB - <p><strong>Objective:</strong> To determine the effect of amblyopia patching therapy on visual outcome in young and adults at 6th and 12th week.</p><p><strong>Study Design:</strong> Quasi-experimental study.</p><p><strong>Place and Duration of Study:</strong> Armed Forces Institute of Ophthalmology Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from Sep 2018 to Jan 2020.</p><p><strong>Methodology:</strong> Out of 110, follow up was successfully completed by 91 eyes. Subjects were divided into young and adult based on age. Age ranging from 5-12 years included in the young group and adult group included those ranging from 13-20 years. Anisometropic amblyopia was considered. Amblyopia due to any other disease were excluded. Subjects were advised patching therapy daily for 4 hours in the affected eye. Follow up was 3 weekly for 12 weeks and the effect of patching therapy was assessed by visual improvement. Statistical analysis was done with SPSS version 21.</p><p><strong>Result:</strong> Out of 91 eyes with amblyopia, 51 (56.6%) were included in the young group while 40 (43.4%) were included in the adult group. In the young group, visual improvement was seen in 40 (78.4%) while in the adult group 24 (60%) showed improvement in vision. Mean visual improvement in young was 1.66 ± 1.099 while 1.03 ± 0.944 in the adult group. Maximum visual improvement in both groups was seen till the 6th week of patching.</p><p><strong>Conclusion:</strong> Patching therapy is effective even at later ages too. However, continuing patching for more than 6 weeks doesn’t show much improvement in vision.</p> ER -