Effectiveness of supramaximal horizontal surgery for third nerve palsy
6 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The purpose of this study was to present the outcomes and progress of third nerve palsy cases after supra-maximal recession / resection. The aim is for an initial overcorrection of 15-25PD at day one. This was a retrospective study of...
Effective contrast ratio as a measure of binocular visual perception
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors used a binocular phase combination paradigm to quantitatively evaluate and compare the binocular visual perception of normal individuals and patients with different types of strabismus to understand the binocular visual perception of patients with strabismus and evaluate whether...
Natural history of optic nerve head drusen in a paediatric population
2 February 2024
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
A retrospective case notes review is presented focusing on children diagnosed with optic nerve head drusen over an eight-year period. Inclusion criteria included cases coded for optic nerve head drusen and / or pseudopapilledema. The aim of the study was...
Medium-term outcomes following photo screening
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
A photo-screening project of preverbal children was conducted in 2016 in Portugal consisting of enrolment of two-year-old children and referral of these if having a positive screen to paediatric ophthalmology plus a screen of four-year-old children who missed or had...
How common are ocular disorders in the first 12-months of life?
2 February 2024
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors present a retrospective case review of all children aged under one year of age diagnosed with an ocular disorder over a 10-year period. The aim of the study was to describe incidence and types of ocular disorder in...
Attracting workforce to paediatric ophthalmology
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This was a survey-based study to address unanswered questions relating to economic and workforce issues in paediatric ophthalmology. The survey comprised 12 questions with yes / no or multiple-choice responses and was circulated to American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and...
Retinal nerve fibre layer thickness in migraine
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The aim of this study is to evaluate retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) thickness changes in children with migraine compared to healthy controls and analyse RNFL changes dependent on type of migraine. This was an observation case control study of...
Outcomes for acute acquired non-accommodative comitant esotropia
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Outcomes are reported in a retrospective review of 338 patients with acute acquired non-accommodative comitant esotropia (AACE). Mean age at presentation was 12.60 ±9.37 years and 220 were male, 118 female. Best corrected visual acuity was 0.2 ±0.29 logMAR overall;...
Incidence and clinical characteristics of paediatric keratitis
2 February 2024
| Jonathan Chan
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Contact lens, Epidemiology, Inflammation, Vision
This is a retrospective, population-based study of a 10-year period from Mayo Clinic, USA between January 2000 and December 2009 of patients <19 years diagnosed with keratitis. Two-hundred and eight-five children were identified. An incidence of 78 per 100,000 and...
Refractive surgery for anisometropic amblyopia
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors report the outcomes of refractive surgery with phakic intraocular lens (PIOL) implant for management of anisometropic amblyopia in children intolerant to conventional therapy. This was a retrospective study of 71 eyes of 71 patients of which 58 were...
Extraocular muscle disinsertion outcomes for large angle strabismus
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors present a case series of patients who underwent surgical extraocular muscle (EOM) disinsertion for severe cranial nerve palsy or thyroid eye disease including 12 patients (13 eyes: 10 male, three female). There was one bilateral case – bilateral...
Features of branchio-oculo-facial syndrome
2 February 2024
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
Branchio-oculo-facial (BOF) syndrome is an autosomal dominant inherited syndrome that typically presents with branchial cleft sinus defects, ocular anomalies and dysmorphic facial appearance. The authors present a new case alongside the results of a literature review describing the common genetic...
