- 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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