Pediatrics Strabismus News

A 10-year-old boy was referred to the New England Eye Center because of severe bifrontal headache associated with blurry vision, vomiting and horizontal double vision for 2 weeks. The patient was currently being treated with doxycycline 100 mg by mouth twice a day, which was started 2 weeks prior to presentation for a tick bite noted on his genitalia. The patient had no other significant medical or ocular history.

The scleral canal may shrink in area when cupping reversal occurs after IOP-lowering congenital glaucoma surgery, a study suggested.

The ocular hypertensive effects of fluorometholone, a steroid that has led to dose-dependent increases in IOP in children, were maintained in younger patients despite reduced regimens, according to a study.

Spectral domain optical coherence tomography may be used in children, according to a study presenting normative data for a Turkish population between the ages of 6 and 16 years.

Premature newborns had slightly greater IOP measurements than full-term newborns due to increased central corneal thickness, a study found.

Robert S. Gold, MD: Let’s talk about what each of you do postoperatively for your strabismus patients. Do you put them on medication, and what kind of follow-up appointments do you set up?

Amblyopia was more prevalent among children identified with nasolacrimal duct obstruction and amblyopia risk factors than among normal children, a study found.

In children with moderate amblyopia from anisometropia or strabismus, no systematic differences were found between distance and near visual acuity, according to a study.

In cases with full control of intraocular inflammation, chronic uveitis may not be a contraindication to primary IOL implantation in children, a study found.

Younger age and less restriction on forced duction testing are risk factors for exotropia after augmented vertical rectus transposition, a study found.