Prevalence and associations of anisometropia and aniso-astigmatism in a population based sample of 6 year old children

Huynh, Son C.; Wang, X Y; Ip, Jerome; Robaei, Dana; Kifley, Annette; Rose, Kathryn A.; Mitchell, Paul

doi:10.1136/bjo.2005.083154

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“…In a 2008 study 14 in Newfoundland, Canada, a 1.4% prevalence of anisometropia was reported in chil- dren (mean age, 4.2 years), and in a recent study 15 from Sydney, Australia, the pediatric (mean age, 6.7 years) prevalence of anisometropia was 1.6% to 2.4%. Although population-based studies have reported anisometropia rates of 7.2% to 9.3%, the populations surveyed were older children (7-18 years) 16 or adults.…”

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Neonatal Dacryostenosis as a Risk Factor for Anisometropia

Piotrowski¹

2010

Arch Ophthalmol

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To determine whether there is a relationship between congenital nasolacrimal duct obstruction (CNLDO) and subsequent refractive error disorders in children. Methods:The medical records of children 5 years and younger diagnosed as having CNLDO between January 1, 2000, and December 31, 2007, were retrospectively reviewed.Results: Three hundred five consecutive children were diagnosed as having CNLDO at a median age of 12.3 months (range, 0.8 months to 4.8 years). Thirty children (9.8%) were diagnosed as having anisometropia with (n=16) or without (n = 14) amblyopia at a median age of 19.2 months (range, 3.6 months to 7.4 years). Twentysix of the 30 patients had hyperopic anisometropia; more severe hyperopia occurred in the eye with CNLDO in 23 patients (88.5%), 2 patients had more severe hyperopia in the fellow eye, and 1 patient had bilateral CNLDO. The median initial (P=.005) and final (PϽ.001) refractive error was significantly more hyperopic in those with both CNLDO and anisometropia compared with those with CNLDO alone. Conclusions:The development of anisometropia with or without amblyopia seems to be more frequent in children examined by an ophthalmologist for CNLDO compared with that reported for the general public. The laterality of more severe hyperopia and amblyopia is generally on the side of the previous dacryostenosis.

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Neonatal Dacryostenosis as a Risk Factor for Anisometropia

Piotrowski¹

2010

Arch Ophthalmol

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“…26 In contrast the prevalence of anisoastigmatism and anisometropia in a populationbased sample of 6-year-old children of 1.0 and 0.6% respectively. 38 Mild ROP does not impact refractive development with the exception of the risk of developing anisometropia, which is increased if any stage of ROP is present. 39 Overall, refractive errors are four times more common in those born preterm (29.6%) than those born at term (7.8%).…”

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Ophthalmological problems associated with preterm birth

O’Connor

Wilson

Fielder

2007

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As survival of preterm infants improves, the long-term care of consequent ophthalmic problems is an expanding field. Preterm birth can inflict a host of challenges on the developing ocular system, resulting in the visual manifestations of varied significance and pathological scope. The ophthalmic condition most commonly associated with preterm birth is retinopathy of prematurity, which has the potential to result in devastating vision loss. However, the visual compromise from increased incidence of refractive errors, strabismus, and cerebral vision impairment has significant impact on visual function, which also has influence on other developmental aspects including psychological and educational. In this review, the normal ocular development is discussed, aiming to exemplify the impact of early exteriorisation on one of the more naive organs of prematurity. This is then related to the incidence and visual consequences of many types of deficit, including refractive error, strabismus, and loss of visual function in preterm populations, with comparisons to term infant studies. Often these conditions are linked with causal and resultant factors being impossible to segregate, but the common factor of increased rates of all types of ophthalmic deficits demonstrates that children born prematurely are indeed premature for life.

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“…Estos datos están cerca de los encontrados en este estudio (4,65 % para el grupo mestizo y 6,06 % para el afrodescendiente). Huynh y colaboradores (27) reportaron una prevalencia de la anisometropía del 1,6 %, inferior a la aquí reportada; sin embargo, la población fue muy diferente a la de este estudio, ya que pertenece a las etnias blanca europea y asiática oriental.…”

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Perfil de la salud visual y ocular de los niños de dos centros de desarrollo infantil de Pereira, Colombia

Galvis

Díaz²

2017

Cienc. Tecnol. Salud Vis. Ocul.

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La detección de alteraciones en el desarrollo visual de los niños es una de las misiones del optómetra, para prevenir la aparición y complicación de los problemas visuales. Objetivo: identificar el estado refractivo, motor y patológico del segmento anterior y posterior en los niños de dos centros de desarrollo infantil (CDI) de Pereira, Colombia. Materiales y métodos: estudio descriptivo retrospectivo, de corte transversal, en el cual se describen las características sociodemográficas y la morbilidad visual y ocular de los niños, de estrato socioeconómico 0 y 1, según las historias clínicas de exámenes efectuados en los años 2012 y 2013 y los niños examinados en los años 2014 y 2015. Resultados: se evaluaron 718 sujetos entre los dos CDI, el 46,1 % de género femenino y 53,9 % de género masculino, con edad media de 46,2 meses (DS ±12,5). El grupo étnico con mayor representación fue el mestizo (83,7 %), seguido del afrocolombiano (13,8 %) y el indígena (2,5 %). El promedio del equivalente esférico (M) fue de +0,34 D y del cilindro, de 0,17 D (J0), con una tendencia del eje con la regla; el estado refractivo más prevalente fue la emetropía (66,0 %), seguido por la hipermetropía (16,0 %), el astigmatismo (15,0 %) y la miopía (3,0 %). La prevalencia de anisometropía fue del 5,2 %; de estrabismo, 1,1 %; de blefaritis, 4,0 %, y de conjuntivitis bacteriana, 1,0 %. Conclusiones: los diagnósticos más frecuentes fueron la emetropía, la ortoforia y la blefaritis, datos que difieren, en su mayoría, con los encontrados en otros estudios étnicos reportados en otros países.

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Prevalence and associations of anisometropia and aniso-astigmatism in a population based sample of 6 year old children

Cited by 117 publications

References 26 publications

Neonatal Dacryostenosis as a Risk Factor for Anisometropia

Neonatal Dacryostenosis as a Risk Factor for Anisometropia

Ophthalmological problems associated with preterm birth

Perfil de la salud visual y ocular de los niños de dos centros de desarrollo infantil de Pereira, Colombia

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