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Fairytale published to encourage children to wear glasses
7 March 2022
The Amazing Fairy Glasses is the first book published by author Katy Tainton, of Neath, South Wales. Katy felt the need to write a book aimed at helping young children who wear glasses when her eldest daughter Belle was diagnosed...
Accommodation in children
1 June 2018
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Accommodation, children, reading, targets, text size
The purpose of this pilot study was to establish typical accommodative responses at 1/3m in children to targets of varying complexity and visual / cognitive demand. This was a study of 18 children aged six to seven years and six...
Refocus on children programme results
1 June 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors describe the logistics and results of the refocus on children programme for the 2012-13 school year. The aim of the programme was to help school nurses provide access to comprehensive vision care and reduce unnecessary visual loss or...
Children’s clinic perceptions
1 April 2015
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
The authors designed a questionnaire intended to be child friendly and for use in a paediatric ophthalmology clinic. The aim of the study was to sample the opinions of the children attending their clinics. Topics in the questionnaire included timing...
Characteristics of ptosis in Iranian children
1 August 2016
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Children, prevalence, ptosis
A cross-section study was undertaken to determine the prevalence of ptosis (congenital and acquired) and its risk factors in Iranian children. The target population was children aged seven years in urban areas of Iran. Seventy schools of eight cities were...
Retinoblastoma in older children
7 April 2021
| Annes Ahmeidat
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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Misdiagnosis, Older age, Retinoblastoma
Retinoblastoma is the most common ophthalmic malignancy in childhood and over 90% are diagnosed before the age of five years. It is not often suspected in older children given its rarity and unusual clinical findings which complicates the diagnosis. The...
Progression of high anisometropia in children
1 October 2018
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This study aimed to analyse the stability and progression of higher degrees of myopic anisometropic in children. This retrospective study included 63 children meeting the inclusion criteria. Mean age at initial visit was 4.3 years ±2. There were 51% males...
Orbital cellulitis outcomes for children
7 December 2020
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This paper discusses the clinical profile and multidisciplinary team (MDT) management outcomes in children treated for paediatric orbital cellulitis. This was a prospective study of 40 children with a mean age of 7.5 years (4-12). Unilateral orbital cellulitis cases had...
OCT angiography metrics in children
3 June 2021
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This prospective study aimed to quantify the vessel density of both the macular and optic nerve and foveal avascular zone (FAZ) values in 92 normal eyes of 92 children (42 boys, 50 girls) aged 13.4 ±2.65 years (seven to 18)....
Ocular findings in children with myasthenia
4 October 2023
| Ivan Yip
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
This is a retrospective audit of paediatric myasthenic patients presenting to Great Ormond Street (GOSH) between January 2016 and January 2020. During this period there were 49 children, including 27 with juvenile myasthenia (JMG) and the rest as congenital myasthenia...
Causes of photophobia in adults and children
3 April 2023
| Lauren R Hepworth
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Neuro-Ophthalmology
This retrospective case review identified individuals of any age with visual discomfort using billing records over an eight-year period. These records were screened for photophobia / light sensitivity as a main symptom or documented during examination. Data including demographics, medical...
IOP in children with uveitis
1 August 2019
| Jonathan Chan
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Retina / Uvea / Vitreous
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child health (paediatrics), glaucoma, inflammation, uveitis
This is a retrospective study of paediatric uveitis (<16-years-old) between July 2002 to June 2016 of a total of 320 children from a single centre: 17.2 % (55/320 patients) developed raised IOP requiring therapy; 11.5% of eyes required glaucoma surgery...