The pediatric age group is vulnerable to permanent visual impairment due to any disruption in receiving symmetrical, focused retinal images.[1] There are also long term consequences of decreased vision reflecting in difficulties at school with consequent reduced employability and impaired quality of life.[2] A concise description of the importance of a timely management of refractive errors in ...

A 13-year-old male patient with a recent history of hyperglycemia developed an acute bilateral posterior subcapsular cataract, consisting of fine feathery streak-like opacities. On examination, his uncorrected visual acuity was 20/50 and J4 at near in both eyes. Under cycloplegia, a moderate hypermetropic refraction was noted in both eyes. He was diagnosed with acute posterior subcapsular catar...

A 35-year-old male patient, diagnosed with acute angle-closure glaucoma, did not improve despite intensive treatment with antiglaucoma medications. Ultrasound biomicroscopy revealed a ciliochoroidal effusion. Due to his past history of drug abuse, a urine test was analyzed and found to be positive for cannabis. After topical cycloplegia and oral steroid therapy, his symptoms improved substantia...

A retrospective study of 106 eye which have undergone prophylactic circumferential cryopexy is presented. The complications involving the anterior segment were iritis, transient cycloplegia, as fixed dilated pupil, and cataract formation. Those involving the posterior segment were vitreous, subchoroidal and retinal haemorrhage, and preretinal fibrosis. The incidence of retinal detachment was 7....

PURPOSE To test whether the level of contrast adaptation (CA) relates to refractive development in the chicken. (CA refers to a spatial frequency-selective increase of suprathreshold contrast sensitivity after exposure to low-contrast patterns). METHODS CA was determined in individual chicks by comparing their optomotor gain in response to drifting low-contrast stripe patterns before and afte...

BACKGROUND The PlusOptix photoscreeners (PlusOptix GmbH, Nuremberg, Germany) is used in many vision screening programs. The purpose of the present study was to further explore the accuracy of the PlusOptix A09 photoscreener in children with ametropia (myopia or hyperopia). METHODS A total of 70 eyes (35 children) were prospectively included. Before administration with the cycloplegia treatmen...