Patching and Suppression in Amblyopia: One Mechanism or Two?

To determine if benefits from occlusion therapy are due to decreased suppression from the fellow eye in children with amblyopia.Ten newly diagnosed amblyopes (7.2 ± 1.4 years old), two with strabismus and eight with anisometropia, participated. Patients were first given a 2-month period of refractive adaptation, followed by occlusion therapy (i.e., patching their fellow eye with an opaque patch for 4 h/day). Visual acuity of the amblyopic eye...