Publications by authors named "Marita Andersson Gronlund"
Aim: This qualitative study explored the lived experiences of the patients with microphthalmia and anophthalmia and their parents, focusing on the healthcare, school settings and daily life challenges to improve patient management.
Methods: In-depth interviews were conducted in Stockholm, Sweden, from October 2022 to June 2023. Participants were recruited through the St Erik Eye Hospital database (2008-2022), and the data was analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.
Aim: To evaluate health- and vision-related quality of life (HR- and VR-QoL) and perceptual visual dysfunction (PVD) in adolescents with hydrocephalus surgically treated in infancy.
Methods: In total, 23 adolescents (15 males and 8 females; median age 14.9 years) with hydrocephalus and 31 controls were evaluated using validated instruments to measure HR-QoL and VR-QoL.
Purpose: It is well established that children born very preterm are at increased risk for ocular abnormalities including altered foveal morphology. However, little is known about how children born moderate-to-late preterm (MLP), gestational age 32 + 0-36 + 6 weeks, are affected later in life. This study investigates foveal avascular zone (FAZ) area, vascular density (VD), central foveal thickness (CFT) and ganglion cell layer thickness (GCL++) of adolescents born MLP without history of retinopathy of prematurity and compare the results with full-term controls.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAim: To study changes in aetiology, prematurity, comorbidity and ophthalmological outcomes in children with surgically treated hydrocephalus to provide information needed to maintain the best possible healthcare for a fragile and changing population.
Methods: Two population-based cohorts, born two decades apart in Region Västra Götaland Sweden, surgically treated for hydrocephalus at Sahlgrenska University Hospital in Gothenburg were recruited at approximately 10 years of age. The participants were examined according to an ophthalmological protocol, including history taking regarding perceptual visual dysfunction (PVD).
Objective: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) is an umbrella term covering a spectrum of medical conditions caused by prenatal alcohol exposure. The FASD Eye Code is a new complementary ophthalmological diagnostic tool created to corroborate the complex FASD diagnosis. The aim of this work was to validate the FASD Eye Code by testing it on a second group of children diagnosed with FASD in a clinical setting.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPurpose: To investigate the surgical and pharmacological management and outcomes of patients with cataract and concurrent uveitis.
Methods: Data from the Swedish National Cataract Register, 2018-2019, were collected and analysed. Uveitic eyes were identified and eyes without uveitis were used as controls.
Purpose: To map the morphology of the retina and optic disc in adolescents with surgically treated hydrocephalus (HC) in infancy and to compare the results with healthy controls.
Methods: The study comprised 26 adolescents (16 male, mean age 15 years) with HC and 31 sex- and aged-matched controls. The following optical coherence tomography (OCT) parameters were obtained: macular retinal thickness (MRT) and volume (MRV), thickness of the macular and peripapillary retinal nerve fibre layer (ppRNFL), and area of the optic disc, cup and rim.
To review and evaluate the surgical outcomes of the Fells-modified Harada-Ito procedure using a dosage scale approach with long-term follow up in patients with torsional diplopia. The records of patients who underwent the modified Harada-Ito procedure by the same surgeon during 2012-2019 were retrospectively reviewed regarding pre- and post-operative data and individual dose-scale used for the surgery. The modified Harada-Ito procedure involved advancing the anterior half of the superior oblique tendon toward the inferior edge of the lateral rectus muscle by a distance determined using a five-graded scale.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To create an easy-to-use complementary ophthalmological tool to support a fetal alcohol spectrum disorder (FASD) diagnosis.
Methods And Analysis: The FASD Eye Code was derived from 37 children with FASD evaluated along with 65 healthy age-matched and sex-matched controls. Four ophthalmological categories, which are abnormalities commonly found in children with FASD, were ranked independently on a 4-point scale, with 1 reflecting normal finding and 4 a strong presence of an abnormality: visual acuity, refraction, strabismus/binocular function and ocular structural abnormalities.
Purpose: To investigate visual perception problems (VPPs), health-related quality of life (HRQoL) and vision-related quality of life (VRQoL) in young adults with foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) and to compare the results with healthy controls.
Methods: Thirty young adults with FASD (13 female; mean age 23 years) and 29 controls (20 female; mean age 25 years) participated. Five areas of VPPs were assessed by a structured history-taking.
Purpose: To assess health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in patients diagnosed with cyclodeviation and to evaluate subjective change following surgical treatment using the Adult Strabismus-20 (AS-20) questionnaire.
Methods: A prospective cohort study was performed from 2014 to 2019 on 29 adult patients with cyclodeviation and cyclodiplopia who were due to undergo corrective strabismus surgery by the same surgeon. The group was divided into two subgroups, according to the type of surgery required for fusion.
Background/aims: Ophthalmological abnormalities such as ptosis, strabismus, refractive errors and optic nerve hypoplasia have been reported in foetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD). The purpose of this study was to investigate whether retinal thickness, retinal nerve fibre layer (RNFL) and optic disc area (ODA) differ between individuals with FASD and healthy controls.
Methods: Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in terms of logarithm of the minimum angle of resolution (logMAR), refraction, and fundus variables measured by optical coherence tomography were obtained from 26 young adults with FASD (12 women, median age 23 years) and 27 controls (18 women, median age 25 years).
Purpose: Congenital anophthalmia (A) and microphthalmia (M) are rare developmental defects, which could be isolated or syndromic. Our objective was to describe a cohort of children and young adults with A/M treated with ocular prosthesis, emphasizing clinical features, diagnosis, treatment, and follow-up.
Methods: Eighteen individuals (10 female) with unilateral A (n = 3) and M (n = 15) with a mean age of 9.
Purpose: To evaluate health-related quality of life (HR-QoL), vision-related (VR-)QoL and perceptual visual dysfunction (PVD) among individuals with anophthalmia (A) and microphthalmia (M) treated with ocular prosthesis.
Methods: The study comprised 15 individuals (mean age 6.6 years; range 1.
Purpose: To evaluate growth, blood pressure and ophthalmological status in preschool children born preterm to mothers with preeclampsia.
Methods: In a prospective cohort study, 78 children (34 girls) born preterm without retinopathy of prematurity were examined regarding length/height, weight, head circumference and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) at birth and at 5 years of age. At 5 years, IGF-binding protein 3 and blood pressure were also measured.
Purpose: To investigate whether ophthalmologic findings in children with fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) persist into young adulthood.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Methods: Thirty children (13 female) adopted from eastern Europe to Sweden in the 1990s and diagnosed with FASD by a multidisciplinary team at the median age of 7.
Purpose: To evaluate quality of life (QoL) in children with juvenile idiopathic arthritis (JIA).
Methods: Forty children with a mean age of 7.9 years were included.
Background: Fetal alcohol spectrum disorders (FASD) are a global health concern. To further understand FASD in adulthood is a major public health interest.
Objective: To describe the clinical characteristics of young adults with FASD adopted from orphanages to a socially more favourable and stable rearing environment as children.
Purpose: To investigate normative subjective cyclotorsion values and cyclofusion ranges in a healthy adult population.
Methods: A cross-sectional investigation was performed in 120 healthy, non-strabismic adults, 60 men and 60 women in the age range of 18-69 years. All subjects were assessed for cyclotorsion using the synoptophore and the single Maddox rod (SMR) methods.
Purpose: To determine the prevalence of strabismus among Danish adults and to find the frequency of history of strabismus and strabismus surgery. Furthermore, to evaluate the prevalence of strabismus-associated amblyopia among participants with strabismus and to relate the results to the current national vision screening programme.
Methods: In total, 3785 adults in the Danish Rural Eye Study underwent an interview regarding eye health, visual acuity measurement, Hirschberg test and retinal photography.
Purpose: To examine visual acuity, refraction and ocular status before, during and after hyperbaric oxygen therapy (HBOT).
Methods: Twenty-nine patients underwent 40 standard protocol HBOT treatments. In all subjects, refraction and best corrected visual acuity were measured at baseline and after ten, 20, 30 and 40 treatments, and at a 12-week follow-up.
Purpose: To evaluate and follow-up ophthalmological findings in individuals diagnosed with neuroborreliosis, confirmed by cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) analysis.
Methods: Twenty-four individuals (13 males), mean age 43.5 ± 18.
Purpose: To study visual function and ocular fundus morphology in relation to growth, metabolic status, and blood pressure in moderate-to-late preterm (MLP) children at 10 years of age.
Design: Prospective cohort study.
Methods: In this population-based observational study, nonsyndromic MLP children born in Gothenburg, Sweden, were examined neonatally in the years 2002-2003 concerning length, weight, head circumference, and insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I).
Purpose: To evaluate the outcome of cataract surgery in adult patients with uveitis.
Materials And Methods: In this retrospective cohort study, medical charts of patients with uveitis and matched control patients without uveitis who underwent cataract surgery at the Eye Clinic, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Mölndal, between January 2005 and December 2009 were analyzed.
Results: The study included 58 eyes with and 283 eyes without uveitis.
Objective: To study visual pathway pathology detected by visual evoked potentials (VEPs) in patients treated with hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) in childhood and to determine the impact of adverse ocular findings, somatic diseases, and conditioning regimens on the VEP results.
Methods: Ophthalmological assessments including pattern VEPs were performed in 47 of 79 patients at a median age of 15 years (range 3-21 years) in median 6 years (1-17 years) after HSCT. Somatic data were extracted from medical records.