Open AccessEvaluation of central, steady, maintained fixation grading for predicting inter-eye visual acuity difference to diagnose and treat amblyopia in strabismic patients
Author(s) -
Mihir Kothari,
Amar Bhaskare,
Deepali Mete,
Svetlana Toshniwal,
Priti Doshi,
Shalini Kaul
Publication year - 2009
Publication title -
indian journal of ophthalmology/indian journal of ophthalmology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.542
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1998-3689
pISSN - 0301-4738
DOI - 10.4103/0301-4738.53052
Subject(s) - medicine , exotropia , anisometropia , esotropia , strabismus , visual acuity , dioptre , ophthalmology , fixation (population genetics) , vision test , intraclass correlation , optometry , refractive error , population , environmental health , clinical psychology , psychometrics
Diagnosis of amblyopia in preverbal strabismic patients is frequently made by binocular fixation preference (BFP) testing. The reports on reliability of BFP are equivocal. This study evaluated the reliability of BFP testing in patients with horizontal strabismus.