Microstructure changes of occipital white matter are responsible for visual problems in the 3-4-year-old very low birth weight children.

Purpose: The main aim of the study was to evaluate which factors affect the long-time visual function in preterm children, whether it is prematurity or retinopathy of prematurity or perhaps disturbances in the visual pathway.

Materials And Methods: Fifty-eight children with mean birth weight 1016 g (range 520-1500 g) were evaluated at mean age 48 months (range 42-54 months). All children underwent magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies, visual evoked potentials (VEPs), and the Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP).

Ocular outcomes in 4-year old prematurely born children.

Purpose: The aim of the study was to assess functional and structural ophthalmologic outcomes in 4-year old very low birth weight children (VLBW).

Material And Methods: A group of 82 VLBW children including: (1) children without retinopathy of prematurity – group O (n = 30), (2) children with retinopathy of prematurity with no indications for laser coagulation- group 1 (n = 20 ), (3) children with retinopathy of prematurity treated with laser coagulation – group 2 (n = 32) were enrolled. Functional (visual acuity, visual evoked potentials, stereopsis, color vision test) and structural (anterior eye segment examination and fundoscopy) outcome, cycloplegic refraction, intraocular pressure and angle of squint were examined in all children.

Relationship between Stereoscopic Vision, Visual Perception, and Microstructure Changes of Corpus Callosum and Occipital White Matter in the 4-Year-Old Very Low Birth Weight Children.

Aim: To assess the relationship between stereoscopic vision, visual perception, and microstructure of the corpus callosum (CC) and occipital white matter, 61 children born with a mean birth weight of 1024 g (SD 270 g) were subjected to detailed ophthalmologic evaluation, Developmental Test of Visual Perception (DTVP-3), and diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) at the age of 4.

Results: Abnormal stereoscopic vision was detected in 16 children. Children with abnormal stereoscopic vision had smaller CC (CC length: 53 ± 6 mm versus 61 ± 4 mm; p < 0.

[Results of 10 years observation of organ of sight in prematurity].

Purpose: (1) To compare the incidence of refractive errors and the orthoptic condition in ten-year-old children, born prematurely and treated with cryotherapy versus children, whom did not apply such a procedure. (2) To estimate condition of the extraocular muscles.

Material And Methods: A group of 60 prematurely born children was divided into 2 subgroups: I--30 children treated with cryotherapy, II--30 no treatment was applied.

[Own experience in the treatment of patients with orbital blow-out fracture].

Unlabelled: The aim of the paper is to present long-term experience in multidisciplinary treatment of, patients with orbital blowout fracture (OBF).

Material And Methods: from 1971 to 2003, 344 patients, including 148 children, with OBF were treated. Diagnostics comprised of ophthalmologic examination, including instrumental methods and radiology.