Archives of Disease in Childhood 2008;93:932-935
ORIGINAL ARTICLES
Longitudinal assessment of visual development in non-syndromic craniosynostosis: a 1-year pre- and post-surgical study
1 Pediatric Neurology Unit, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
2 Department of Ophthalmology, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
3 Paediatric Neurosurgery, Catholic University, Rome, Italy
4 Paediatric Neurosurgery, Pediatric Hospital "Bambino Gesù", Rome, Italy
Eugenio Mercuri, Neuropsichiatria Infantile, Policlinico Gemelli, Largo Gemelli, 00168 Roma; mercuri{at}rm.unicatt.it
Objective: to investigate visual function pre- and post surgery in children with single-suture non-syndromic craniosynostosis
Design: Twenty-nine infants (12 with sagittal synostosis, 10 with trigonocephaly and 7 with anterior plagiocephaly) were longitudinally evaluated using a battery of tests assessing various aspects of visual function, including ocular behaviour, acuity, visual fields and fixation shift. All infants were assessed before surgery and 2, 6 and 12 months after surgery.
Results: Before surgery only 16% of infants had completely normal visual function, while on the assessment performed 12 months after surgery, the number with normal results on all the tests increased to 65%. The only abnormalities found 12 months after surgical correction were mainly found on abnormal oculomotor behaviour in infants with plagiocephaly.
Conclusion: Abnormalities of visual function were not frequent in infants with non-syndromic craniosynostosis who underwent surgical correction. Approximately half of the patients had some visual abnormalities before surgery, which subsequently improved, showing a delayed visual maturation rather than persistent abnormalities.
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
-
All Versions of this Article:
adc.2007.128421v1
93/11/932 most recent - Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
- Citation Map
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in ADC Online
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
