Ocular manifestations of autism in ophthalmology.

Purpose: To highlight the ocular manifestations of autism spectrum disorders in a retrospective chart review of the Greater Baltimore Medical Center (GBMC) among children in the pediatric ophthalmology practice setting.

Design: Retrospective chart review. Forty-four patients diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD) between January 2007 and October 2011 were examined by an orthoptist, orthoptic student, and a pediatric ophthalmologist.

Screening for amblyogenic risk factors using the PlusoptiX S04 photoscreener on the indigent population of Honduras.

Objective: To evaluate the PlusoptiX S04 photoscreener (PlusoptiX GmbH, Nürnberg, Germany) compared with a gold standard pediatric ophthalmology examination for children seen during a medical missionary trip.

Design: Retrospective chart review.

Participants: One hundred five children were examined during a medical mission trip to Honduras.

Lyme disease and convergence insufficiency: is it a near fit?

Introduction And Purpose: The purpose of this study is to determine the prevalence of convergence insufficiency (CI) in patients who have been diagnosed with Lyme disease.

Methods And Results: This study is a retrospective review of charts from 190 patients with confirmed Lyme disease. The diagnosis of CI is based on decreased fusional convergence amplitudes at near fixation.