Childhood blindness and low vision

Title: Childhood blindness and low vision
Creator: Jones, Michael M.; Silveira, Susan L.; Martin, Frank J.
Relation: Pediatric Opthalmology and Strabismus p. 10-15
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2012
Description: The diagnosis of blindness in a child is devestating to the child and to the child's family. The ophthalmologist is generally the individual who has the task to deliver the bad news to the child's family (see Chapter 8, Breaking the News). It is important that the ophthalmologist makes the diagnosis on clinical grounds and not solely on diagnostic investigations. Delay in visual maturation may masquerade as blindness as may ocular albinism. Electrodiagnostic tests in the first year of life are often unreliable, and for this reason, clinical examination and judgment are of paramount importance. If the etiology of a severe visual impairment is not clinically obvious, then the child requires electrodiagnostic investigations (electroretinography [ERG] and visual evoked potential [VEP]) as well as imaging of the brain and orbits (magnetic resonance imaging [MRI]).
Description: 3rd ed.
Subject: childhood blindness; low vision; opthamology; clinical examination
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336744
Identifier: uon:27691
Identifier: ISBN:9780199857012
Language: eng

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