Cost of screening and timely treatment versus the comprehensive management of the severe visual impairment due to retinopathy of premature.

Unlabelled: Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness worldwide. In Guatemala, a large number of premature infants are born in hospitals outside the capital city and present for evaluation at advanced stages of the disease.

Objective: To compare the cost of screening and timely treatment versus the total cost of comprehensive management of patients with visual impairment secondary to ROP.

[Characterization of congenital cataract and postoperative visual outcome in a Pediatric Ophthalmology Unit in a middle-income country].

Unlabelled: The functional visual outcome after cataract surgery is influenced by several factors such as the age at diagnosis and surgical treatment, as well as visual rehabilitation.

Objective: to characterize con genital cataract patients and assess the postoperative visual outcome in an ophthalmological care center in Guatemala.

Patients And Method: A cross-sectional retrospective study.

Amelanotic iris melanoma in a 7 year-old hispanic boy with subclinical globe perforation.

We report an unusual case of an amelanotic melanoma in a 7 year old hispanic child with subclinical globe perforation. Uveal melanoma rarely occurs in children. Young affected patients are mostly light-colored eye Caucasian adolescents.

Straatsma syndrome: Satisfactory amblyopia treatment. Report of two cases.

Clinical Cases: The cases are presented on 2 female patients with Straatsma syndrome, with satisfactory treatment of amblyopia.

Discussion: The level of anisometropia and myelination of retinal nerve fibres were different in these two patients. However, both achieved 0.