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CLINICAL TRIALS SECTION EDITOR: ANNE S. LINDBLAD, PhD Randomized Controlled Trial of Patching vs Acupuncture for Anisometropic Amblyopia in Children Aged 7 to 12 Years Jianhao Zhao, MD; Dennis S. C. Lam, MD, FRCOphth; Li Jia Chen, PhD; Yunxiu Wang, BMed; Chongren Zheng, DEpid; Qiaoer Lin, DN; Srinivas K. Rao, FRCS; Dorothy S. P. Fan, FRCS; Mingzhi Zhang, MD; Ping Chung Leung, MD; Robert Ritch, MD, FRCOphth Objective: To compare the effectiveness of 2-hour daily dence interval, 0.005-0.092; P = .03), meeting the defi- patching with the effectiveness of acupuncture in treat- nition of equivalence (difference within 1 line). The ing anisometropic amblyopia in children aged 7 to 12 years BSCVA had improved by 2 lines or more in 28 (66.7%) who have worn optimal spectacles for at least 16 weeks. and 31 (75.6%) eyes in the patching and acupuncture groups, respectively. Amblyopia was resolved in 7 (16.7%) and 17 (41.5%) eyes in the patching and acupuncture Methods: In a single-center randomized controlled trial, groups, respectively. 88 eligible children with an amblyopic eye who had a best spectacle-corrected visual acuity (BSCVA) of 0.3 to 0.8 Conclusion: Acupuncture produced equivalent treat- logMAR at baseline were randomly assigned to receive ment
JAMA Ophthalmology – American Medical Association
Published: Dec 1, 2010
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