The Effect of High-Dose Erythropoietin Perinatally on Retinal Function in School-Aged Children Born Extremely or Very Preterm.

Purpose: To investigate the long-term effects of high-dose recombinant human erythropoietin (rhEPO) administered during the perinatal period on retinal and visual function in children born extremely or very preterm.

Design: Randomized, double-blind clinical trial follow-up plus cohort study.

Methods:  Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.

[Non-Organic Visual Loss in Children and Teenagers].

Background: Functional visual disorders in children and adolescents are an important but challenging differential diagnosis. What is characteristic is the discrepancy between the symptomatology and the objective findings. The aim of our work was to analyse the data of those patients who were cared for at our clinic with the diagnosis "functional visual disorders".