TY - CHAP
T1 - Pediatric ophthalmology
AU - Dao, Jennifer Bagdady
AU - Pineles, Stacy
AU - Yoo, Sylvia
AU - Shieh, Christine
AU - McClintic, Elysa
AU - Addis, Victoria
AU - Mehtani, Mohit
AU - Lee, Andrew R.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
PY - 2015/1/1
Y1 - 2015/1/1
N2 - The practice of pediatric ophthalmology deals with a diversity of diseases, from strabismus and amblyopia to management of congenital cataracts and retinopathy of prematurity. The field is fortunate to have the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG), which is a network of both academic and private ophthalmologists across the country recruiting for its studies. It has extensively studied the treatment of amblyopia (ATS studies from 1-15), many of which are reviewed in this chapter. Included are also studies on congenital esotropia and nasolacrimal duct obstruction. One of the more complex pediatric ocular diseases to treat is a congenital cataract. With increasing use of intraocular lens implants, the IATS study has provided statistics on their use in infants and helped guide the physician's decision with the family. Finally, retinopathy of prematurity's (ROP) treatment has evolved greatly since the 1980s thanks to the CRYOROP and ETROP studies. Due to these, there are now specific guidelines to treating this potentially blinding disease.
AB - The practice of pediatric ophthalmology deals with a diversity of diseases, from strabismus and amblyopia to management of congenital cataracts and retinopathy of prematurity. The field is fortunate to have the Pediatric Eye Disease Investigator Group (PEDIG), which is a network of both academic and private ophthalmologists across the country recruiting for its studies. It has extensively studied the treatment of amblyopia (ATS studies from 1-15), many of which are reviewed in this chapter. Included are also studies on congenital esotropia and nasolacrimal duct obstruction. One of the more complex pediatric ocular diseases to treat is a congenital cataract. With increasing use of intraocular lens implants, the IATS study has provided statistics on their use in infants and helped guide the physician's decision with the family. Finally, retinopathy of prematurity's (ROP) treatment has evolved greatly since the 1980s thanks to the CRYOROP and ETROP studies. Due to these, there are now specific guidelines to treating this potentially blinding disease.
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M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:84955629810
SN - 9781634821032
SP - 299
EP - 377
BT - The Ophthalmology Clinical Trials Handbook
PB - Nova Science Publishers, Inc.
ER -