Review Article

Active Vision Therapy for Anisometropic Amblyopia in Children: A Systematic Review

Table 5

Excluded articles in the systematic review.

Author (year)Excluding reason

Lee et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Portela et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Kelly et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Mezad-Koursh et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Manh et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Gao et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Gao et al. (2018)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Hamm et al. (2017)The study includes anisometropic, strabismic, and deprivation amblyopia and those that do not sort the results by type of amblyopia
Barollo et al. (2017)Is not a RCT or a NRSI
Bossi et al. (2017)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria because only 7 of 22 children are anisometropic amblyopes and there is no control group, so we classified the study as case series
Dadeya et al. (2016)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Kelly et al. (2016)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Rajavi et al. (2016)This study includes strabism until 10 diopters of deviation and do not sort the results by type of amblyopia
Holmes et al. (2016)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Guo et al. (2016)This study is an ongoing trial. In addition, it does not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Webber et al. (2016)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Herbison et al. (2016)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Erbagci et al. (2015)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria because authors do not use active visual therapy
Moseley et al. (2015)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria because authors do not use active visual therapy
Hussain et al. (2014)Only one child in the study has anisometropic amblyopia
Li et al. (2014)This study includes strabismic children previously treated with glasses or surgery
Mansouri et al. (2014)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia. Adults are included in the analysis
Herbison et al. (2013)Do not clearly sort the results of the analysis by type of amblyopia. Only four children are anisometropic amblyopes
Foss et al. (2013)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Lyon et al. (2013)The objective of this study was to assess the adherence to treatment. There are no results about efficacy
Zhang et al. (2013)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria because it is a retrospective study
Tijam et al. (2012)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Knox et al. (2012)Only two children are anisometropic amblyopes
Liu et al. (2011)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Evans et al. (2011)Do not clearly sort the results neither by type of amblyopia nor age
Wu et al. (2010)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria. Authors do not use active visual therapy
Polat et al. (2009)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria. It is a pilot study where 2 of 5 subjects have strabismus
Cleary et al. (2009)Do not clearly sort the results by type of amblyopia
Awan et al. (2009)This study does not meet the inclusion criteria because it is a retrospective study