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Part-, full-time patching equally effective for severe amblyopia

Rochester, MN-In young children with severe amblyopia, 6 hours of prescribed patching per day appears to be as effective as full-time prescribed patching when both are combined with 1 hour of near activity, according to the recently published results of the Amblyopia Treatment Study of patching regimens for severe amblyopia.

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