J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  2011 Apr;52(4):466-471.

Clinical Findings and Results of Low Vision Devices in Pediatric Patients with Albinism

• Oh DH
• Park SH
• Lee JK
• Moon NJ

Abstract

PURPOSE
To assess clinical features and efficacy of spectacles and low vision devices in pediatric patients with albinism.
METHODS
A retrospective study was performed of 15 pediatric patients with albinism for whom glasses and low vision devices had been prescribed to determine subjective satisfaction and objective improvement in visual acuity (VA), strabismus, contrast sensitivity, number of reading letters during 1 minute with refractive correction and low vision devices.
RESULTS
The median refractive correction was +0.12 +/- 5.45 diopter (D) spherical equivalent with -0.71 +/- 3.62 D astigmatism. Most patients complained of reading difficulty and photophobia. Hand-held magnifier and Keplerian telescope were commonly prescribed low vision devices. In addition, VA, strabismic deviation, contrast sensitivity and number of reading letters during 1 minute significantly improved after wearing glasses and low vision devices.
CONCLUSIONS
The present study showed a significant improvement in corrected VA, alignment and subjective symptoms in pediatric patients with albinism by wearing glasses and low vision devices. Additionally, high compliance can improve final patients' satisfaction through using training of low vision devices.

Keyword

Albinism; Low vision device; Spectacles

MeSH Terms

Albinism
Astigmatism
Compliance
Contrast Sensitivity
Eyeglasses
Glass
Humans
Photophobia
Retrospective Studies
Strabismus
Telescopes
Vision, Low
Visual Acuity

Figure

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  Figure 1. Comparisons of mean contrast sensitivity according to wearing of tinted lenses at two conditions. *p<0.05 comparison between without tinted-lenses group and with tinted-lenses group in day condition (Mann-Whitney U-test); † p>0.05 comparison between without tinted-lenses group and with tinted-lenses group in day condition (Mann-Whitney U-test).

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