Treatment Effects of MIN GLASSES for Amblyopia and Diplopia

MIN GLASSES is specially manufactured in order to enhance satisfaction of wearer and therefore increase the effectiveness of treatment of an amblyopia and a diplopia. One of the lens is specially grounded and coated to blur vision. Cosmetically, the eye appears to wear regular glasses through the blur lens. We prospectively studied 58 amblyopic children and 10 diplopic adults. Each patient was treated with MIN GLASSES for cosmetic problems. We checked linear visual acuity of pre- and post-treatment. Questionnaires were given to the patients and parents regarding cosmetic satisfaction with treatment. In amblyopic children. 44 patients(75.9%) showed visual acuity improvement of 1.61 +/- 1.50 lines by Han's visual acuity chart. Patient compliance was 87.9%(51 patients) with patient satisfaction based on a questionnaire response. Parents were 87.9%(51 parents) positive response. In diplopic adults, 10 patients(100%) were positive response with satisfaction and demonstrated to be free of symptom of diplopia. MIN GLASSES is effective in high compliance satisfaction of amblyopia and diplopia, and improvement of visual acuity of amblyopia.

Min's Glasses are New Effective Method as an Alternative and also an Initial Treatment in Amblyopic Children

To search for the more effective amblyopia treatment, we prospectively compared the results of initial group and alternative group with use of Min's glasses. Initial and alternative groups consisted of 18 and 64 patients. 15 patients (83.3%) of initial group were compliant with the treatment while 50 patients(78.1%) of alternative group were. No significant differences existed between them based on age, sex, causes of amblyopia and initial visual acuity (P>0.05). Average visual acuity improvements were 2.13 +/- 1.81 lines in initial group, compared to 2.51 +/- 1.50 lines in alternative group and no significant differences existed between them according to age, causes of amblyopia and initial visual acuity (P>0.05), However, in cases of female, there was significant visual acuity improvement in alternative group in comparision with initial group (P=0.034). In conclusion, Min's glasses were effective not only in initial treatment group but also in alternative treatment group, and in female patients who previously failed with conventional occlusion therapy the effect was more pronounced than male patients.

Factors related to Surgical Results of Intermittent Exotropia

Intermittent exotropia shows higher incidence in Oriental than in Caucassian. The results of surgical treatment is variable and the factors related to that have been a matter of some dispute. The authors retrospectively reviewed the relationships between the factors and the results of surgical treatment on the 186 children who had intermittent exot ropia and who were treated with bilateral lateral recti recessions. The 162 cases(86.5%) of 187 cases showed satisfactory surgical results, which was less than 5 prism diopters of exotropia and esotropia at far and near, with good stereopsis. The age at onset and initial surgery, the time interval from onset to initial surgery, the preoperative deviation angle, the types of intermittent exotropia, the inferior oblique overaction and dissociated vertical deviation did not significantly influence the surgical results(p>0.05). But, early postoperative overcorrection of 6~9 prism diopters lead to successful result(95.6%). This study revealed initial postoperative overcorrection influence the surgical results of bilateral lateral recti recessions in intermittent exotropia(p=0.03).