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Pediatric Disease Annotations & Medicines




Disease cataract
Phenotype C0002418|amblyopia
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PubMedID- 24698161 Primary visual cortex, v1), with visual processing receiving already integrated binocular information relying on normal input through the fellow (sound) eye, binocular amblyopia, that is due to binocular congenital cataract, affects binocular processing at levels higher than v1 (ellemberg et al., 2002b; lewis et al., 2002).
PubMedID- 22357849 The mechanism of amblyopia in children with congenital cataract is not understood fully, but studies in macaques have shown that geniculate synapses are lost in striate cortex (v1).
PubMedID- 26043421 3 patients (2%) had relative amblyopia due to a traumatic cataract sustained in early childhood.

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