The spectrum of eye disease in children with AIDS due to vertically transmitted HIV disease: Clinical findings, virology and recommendations for surveillance

Abstract

Detection of reactivation is difficult and we recommend fundus photography under general anaesthesia wherever possible. Children with other end-organ disease, symptomatic eye disease and advanced HIV disease with severe immunosuppression require ophthalmological surveillance.

Developmental and childhood glaucoma

“…As with adults, children suffering from infectious entities that afflict the anterior segment, such as herpes or opportunistic infections in immune-compromised patients, 107 require appropriate diagnosis, management of the underlying condition, and attention to any ocular manifestations.…”