The scotogenic contact lens | 合法醫療器材資訊網

由MPRobert著作·2015·被引用2次—Indexedbyself-reportedscoresandbinocularperimetry,thescotogeniccontactlenswascomparablyeffectiveineliminatingthediplopiawhilesignificantly ...

It is widely assumed that innovation in medical treatment can only follow innovation in medical science, novel action naturally requiring novel fact. But there is a great deal of established fact—especially in physiology—whose therapeutic potential is underappreciated.

Here we apply such ‘retro-innovation’ to the management of binocular diplopia, a symptom reported by an estimated 120 000 people in the UK (data from Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency for 2010). Where the misalignment of the eyes cannot be immediately corrected—the majority—the common approach is to remove one of the two images by occluding one eye, usually with a ‘pirate-style’ eye patch. This eliminates the symptom, but at the cost of creating another: a reduction in the visual field between 48% and 76%.1 Crucially, while we do not use the peripheral vis...