Peculiarities of vernier monocular and binocular visual acuity in the retinal orthogonal meridians in patients with hypermetropic astigmatism

Authors

  • Владимир Александрович Коломиец The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001, Ukraine
  • Максим Юрьевич Бандура The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001, Ukraine
  • Наталия Владимировна Коломиец The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001, Ukraine

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15587/2313-8416.2015.45310

Keywords:

astigmatism, visual acuity, vernier visual acuity, meridional amblyopia

Abstract

It was carried out an examination of meridional vernier visual acuity in 100 patients 7-25 years old with a simple and compound hypermetropic astigmatism and refractive ambyiopia. An astigmatic component of refraction was in range 0,5- 2,5 dptr. Visual acuity on the sighting eyes after correction was 0,9- 1,0, on eyes with amblyopia 0,4 - 0,85 relative units.

Methods. Visual acuity was defined by the Landolt rings of Sivtsev table. Vernier visual acuity was defined in seconds of arc from 5 km, using special computer program.

Result. It was demonstrated that in patients with the simple hypertropic astigmatism diagnosis of meridional amblyopia can be specified by the comparison of data of monocular and binocular vernier visual acuity in orthogonal meridians of retinas.

Conclusions. An effect of the rise of meridional binocular visual acuity in one of meridians and its absence in another one allows define selective meridional disturbances of the visual acuity

Author Biographies

Владимир Александрович Коломиец, The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001

MD, Senior Researcher, Head of Laboratory

Laboratory of medico-technical development

Максим Юрьевич Бандура, The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001

Graduate

Наталия Владимировна Коломиец, The Filatov Institute Of Eye Diseases And Tissue Therapy Of The National Academy Of Medical Sciences Of Ukraine 49/51 Franch Boulevard, Odesa, Ukraine, 65001

doctor

Counseling clinic 

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Published

2015-06-29

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Medical