Trial Comparing Daily Atropine Versus Weekend Atropine

Summary

The goals of this study are: * To compare the visual acuity outcome in the amblyopic eye after 17 weeks of daily use of atropine versus weekend-only use of atropine. * To compare the proportion of patients achieving a complete treatment response (defined as amblyopic eye acuity \>20/25 or equal to that of the sound eye in the absence of a reduction in the sound eye acuity from baseline) with daily atropine versus weekend-only atropine.

Timeline

Start

2002-06

Primary completion

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Completion

2003-04

Publications

• Results Repka MX, Cotter SA, Beck RW, Kraker RT, Birch EE, Everett DF, Hertle RW, Holmes JM, Quinn GE, Sala NA, Scheiman MM, Stager DR Sr, Wallace DK; Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group. A randomized trial of atropine regimens for treatment of moderate amblyopia in children. Ophthalmology. 2004 Nov;111(11):2076-85. doi: 10.1016/j.ophtha.2004.04.032.
• Wallace DK, Lazar EL, Melia M, Birch EE, Holmes JM, Hopkins KB, Kraker RT, Kulp MT, Pang Y, Repka MX, Tamkins SM, Weise KK; Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group. Stereoacuity in children with anisometropic amblyopia. J AAPOS. 2011 Oct;15(5):455-61. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2011.06.007.
• Christoff A, Repka MX, Kaminski BM, Holmes JM; Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group. Distance versus near visual acuity in amblyopia. J AAPOS. 2011 Aug;15(4):342-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jaapos.2011.05.004.
• Repka M, Simons K, Kraker R; Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group. Laterality of amblyopia. Am J Ophthalmol. 2010 Aug;150(2):270-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajo.2010.01.040. Epub 2010 May 8.

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