Macular Thickness, Foveal Volume, and Choroidal Thickness in Amblyopic Eyes and Their Relationships to the Treatment Outcome
Table 1
Demographic profiles of the participants with persistent amblyopia and recovered amblyopia.
Persistent amblyopia ()
Recovered amblyopia ()
value
Age
Mean ± SD, years
7.46 ± 2.13
8.14 ± 3.25
0.436
Range, years
5.0–11.5
5.0–16.0
Gender
Male, n (%)
12 (66.67)
15 (57.70)
0.549
Female, n (%)
6 (33.33)
11 (42.31)
0.552
Severe amblyopia,n (%)
15 (83.33)
2 (7.69)
<0.001
Type of amblyopia
Anisometropic, n (%)
6 (33.33)
14 (53.85)
0.111
Strabismic anisometropic, n (%)
8 (44.44)
4 (15.38)
0.049
Strabismic, n (%)
3 (16.67)
2 (7.69)
0.226
Ametropic, n (%)
1 (5.56)
6 (23.08)
0.426
Spherical equivalent†
Mean ± SD, diopters
0.47 ± 5.97
1.61 ± 4.12
0.449
Range, diopters
−12.63 to + 7.25
−10.75 to +8.5
Axial length†
Mean ± SD, mm
23.05 ± 1.73
22.58 ± 1.33
0.359
Range, mm
20.8–26.34
20.44–26.75
SD: standard deviation. Severe amblyopia was defined as visual acuity of <0.3 at the time of entering the study. †The worse eye of the children with bilateral amblyopia was used in the analysis.
