Blindness and severe visual impairment have far reaching social, economic, and personal implications. When it occurs in children, it also poses serious barriers to the development of the child at a formative stage. Primary health care approaches such as immunization against measles and rubella, better nutrition, especially with regard to vitamin A, timely prophylaxis against eye infections in t...

Although often trivialized, disorders of the eye affect a majority of the global population of all ages. There are an estimated 1.26 million blind children worldwide, of which approximately 33% live in Africa [1-3]. Each year, an estimated half a million children become blind, of whom 60% die in childhood. Notable among the causes of blindness and visual impairment among children are vitamin A ...

Pediatric cataracts are responsible for more than 1 million childhood blindness in Asia. In developing countries like India, 7.4%–15.3% of childhood blindness is due to cataract.[1] The socioeconomic status of a large proportion of children with cataracts in India precludes reliable rehabilitation with contact lenses for aphakia. It is noteworthy that the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS)[2...

Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the most important causes of childhood blindness worldwide. The trend of ROP in Malaysia was unclear because there was no national registry before 2002. The purpose of this study is to analyze ROP students of different ages in the schools for the blind in Malaysia in order to evaluate the trend of ROP from 1992 to 2001. Data were obtained from a previo...

Background: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a vasoproliferative retinal disorder that affects extremely premature infants and the leading cause irreversible blindness in childhood. Objective: This study presents review Cochrane systematic reviews about ROP. Methods: We analyzed summarized results all intervention, prevention treatment, from Systematic Reviews (SR) for ROP designed to highes...

Abstract Common pediatric malignancies often surprise clinicians with unusual presentations. In this narrative, we report two patients common childhood cancer having unique neuroophthalmic characteristics. the first case, have a child solid tumor presenting blindness without proptosis, while second case is of hematological malignancy unilateral proptosis visual impairment. The highlights that c...

AIMS To determine the anatomical site and underlying causes of blindness and severe visual impairment in children under 16 years of age in special education in the People's Republic of China with a view to determining potentially preventable and treatable causes. METHODS A national study of children attending schools for the blind in China was conducted between April and June 1998 using the W...