Sensitivity in the nasal and temporal hemifields in children treated for cataract.

PURPOSE: To determine if form-deprived aphakes, like normal infants, show especially poor sensitivity in the nasal visual field. The purpose of this article was also to examine the influence on their peripheral sensitivity of the timing and duration of deprivation, of whether deprivation was monocular or binocular, and of having patched the fellow nondeprived eye. METHODS: Static perimetry was used to measure intensity thresholds at 20 degrees …