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Milford M.D. in Lazy Eye Study
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Business New Haven
6/23/2003
By: BNH
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MILFORD - Eye Physicians & Surgeons, the practice of pediatric ophthalmologist Darron Bacal, was one of 35 sites nationwide to participate in a national study on "lazy eye." The study, which appears in the May issue of Archives of Ophthalmology, discovered that children who are required to wear a daily eye patch to help correct moderate lazy eye, known as ambloyopia, may be able to reduce patch-wearing time from six hours to as little as two hours daily and still effectively treat the condition, according to Bacal.
"Kids are definitely going to like this one," said Bacal. "The reduction of wearing time makes it more likely that patients will be compliant, which means that correction is more likely to take place.
"In addition, the reduced time also reduces the social problems kids often face from wearing the patch," Bacal added.
Amblyopia, which usually begins in infancy or early childhood, is a condition of poor vision in an otherwise healthy eye because the brain has learned to favor the other eye. The new study concluded that afflicted children need to perform one hour of "near" or close-up work per day while the "good" eye is patched.
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