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.

[Clinical and epidemiological characteristics of ocular trauma in children under 14 years of age].

Pediatric ocular trauma is common and the leading cause of non congenital unilateral blindness. The information in developing countries is scarce. The objective of this case series is to describe clinical and epidemiological characteristics of ocular trauma in children under 14 years of age who visited Hospital Dr.