amblyopia

Also known as suppression amblyopia, lazy eye

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Key facts

Medical condition.name: Amblyopia
Medical condition.synonyms: Lazy eye
Medical condition.image: Child eyepatch.jpg
Medical condition.caption: A child wearing an adhesive eyepatch to correct amblyopia
Medical condition.field: Ophthalmology, optometry
Medical condition.symptoms: Decreased vision
Medical condition.onset: Before age five
Medical condition.causes: Poor alignment of the eyes, eye being irregularly shaped such that focusing is difficult, one eye being more nearsighted or farsighted, clouding of the lens
Medical condition.diagnosis: Vision testing
Medical condition.differential: Brainstem disorders, optic nerve disorder, eye diseases
Medical condition.treatment: Glasses, eyepatch
Medical condition.frequency: ~2% of adults

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Research

11,450 papers

Comprehensive review of amblyopia: Types and management.Indian journal of ophthalmology · 2023
Amblyopia: Detection and Treatment.American family physician · 2019
[Amblyopia].Journal francais d'ophtalmologie · 2014
Amblyopia.Current opinion in ophthalmology · 1995
Amblyopia.Current opinion in ophthalmology · 1996

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Wikidata facts

Image: Child eyepatch.jpg

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Commons category: Amblyopia
ICPC 2 ID: F99
NCI Thesaurus ID: C118764
exact match: identifiers.org/doid/DOID:10376
ICD-9-CM: 368.00
WordLift URL: data.medicalrecords.com/medicalrecords/healthwise/amblyopia

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Contents

Signs and symptoms
Cause
Strabismus
Refractive
Deprivation and occlusion
Pathophysiology
Diagnosis
Treatment
Older age
Epidemiology
Research
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Amblyopia, also called lazy eye, is a disorder of sight in which the brain fails to fully process input from one eye and over time favors the other eye. It results in decreased vision in an eye that typically appears normal in other aspects. Amblyopia is the most common cause of decreased vision in a single eye among children and younger adults.

The cause of amblyopia can be any condition that interferes with focusing during early childhood. This can occur from poor alignment of the eyes (strabismic), an eye being irregularly shaped such that focusing is difficult, one eye being more nearsighted or farsighted than the other (refractive), or clouding of the lens of an eye (deprivational). After the underlying cause is addressed, vision is not restored right away, as the mechanism also involves the brain.