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Background: Adults with amblyopia are currently offered no treatment in clinical practice Recently, it has been demonstrated that patching one eye of a binocularly normal subject with a diffuser strengthens that eye's contribution to the binocular percept when the diffuser is removed. So, this study assesses effectiveness and difference of occlusion therapy while using mobile phones and while playing video games in adult patients with amblyopia.Methods: Subjects with refractive, anisometropic, sensory and strabismic amblyopia in 18 to 40 age year old included in the study. It’s a 6 months’ observational study with 2 follow-up after first visit. 66 patients were observed. The first group (n=29) give occlusion therapy while using mobile phone and second group (n=37) done occlusion therapy while playing video games. Student t-test is used to analyse vision and contrast sensitivity and analysed using statistical software SPSS (version 20.0).Results: Out of 29 patients in first group, 18 (62%) were females, and 11 (38%) were males. Out of 37 patients in second group, 20 (54.1%) were females, and 17 (45.9%) were males. First group (patching with reading in mobile phone) had more improvement than second group (patching with video gaming) in vision and contrast.Conclusion: Males are more adult amblyopes comparing to females (in both the groups). In case of comparing the improvement of visual acuity and contrast sensitivity. Better improvement is obtained more in contrast sensitivity during follow-up.
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Background: Patient with vernal keratoconjunctivitis faces significant morbidity, which affects quality of life or; moreover, it can lead to vision threatening, corneal complication in severe cases and chronic cases coupled with potential iatrogenic side effects. Aim of this study to assess the demography, clinical features and quality of life of patients with vernal keratoconjunctivitis in a centre in South India.Methods: General objective is to access the health related-quality of life and demographic study of VKC patients in a tertiary eye care hospital in south India. KINDL questionnaire with 30 questions is used for 30 paediatric patients. Percentage analysis for clinical assessment and interpretation method for questionnaire was used as statistical method.Results: In clinical assessment papillary reaction (96.66%), giant papillae (83.34%), Horner Trantas dots (20%), shield ulcer (13.35%), corneal erosions (43.33%), conjunctival congestion (76.68%). In case of vision 36.66% had normal vision, 56.67% had mild vision loss, 6.68% with moderate vision loss.Conclusions: VKC affects the health related quality of life of the patients significantly. The management of VKC should consider this aspect of health related quality of life, in addition to clinical parameters. From the assessment of KINDL questionnaire 30 samples 18 patients had high and 12 patients had average quality of life.