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Pérez Roche MT, Yam JC, Liu H, Gutierrez D, Pham C, Balasanyan V, García G, Cedillo Ley M, de Fernando S, Ortín M, Pueyo V. Visual Acuity and Contrast Sensitivity in Preterm and Full-Term Children Using a Novel Digital Test. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 10:children10010087. [PMID: 36670638 PMCID: PMC9856886 DOI: 10.3390/children10010087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/08/2022] [Revised: 12/08/2022] [Accepted: 12/21/2022] [Indexed: 01/03/2023]
Abstract
Visual assessment in preverbal children mostly relies on the preferential looking paradigm. It requires an experienced observer to interpret the child's responses to a stimulus. DIVE (Device for an Integral Visual Examination) is a digital tool with an integrated eye tracker (ET) that lifts this requirement and automatizes this process. The aim of our study was to assess the development of two visual functions, visual acuity (VA) and contrast sensitivity (CS), with DIVE, in a large sample of children from 6 months to 14 years (y) of age, and to compare the results of preterm and full-term children. Participants were recruited in clinical settings from five countries. There were 2208 children tested, 609 of them were born preterm. Both VA and CS improved throughout childhood, with the maximum increase during the first 5 years of age. Gestational age, refractive error and age had an impact on VA results, while CS values were only influenced by age. With this study we report normative reference outcomes for VA and CS throughout childhood and validate the DIVE tests as a useful tool to measure basic visual functions in children.
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Affiliation(s)
- María Teresa Pérez Roche
- Ofthalmology Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Aragon Institute of Heatlh Research (IIS Aragón), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- The First Affiliated Hospital of Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing 210029, China
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- I3A Institute for Research in Engineering, Universidad de Zaragoza, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
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- National Institute of Ophthalmology, Hanoi 100000, Vietnam
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- Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Department, Hospital de la Ceguera, APEC, Ciudad de Mexico 04030, Mexico
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- Strabismus and Pediatric Ophthalmology Department, Hospital de la Ceguera, APEC, Ciudad de Mexico 04030, Mexico
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- Ophthalmology Department, Cruces University Hospital, 48903 Barakaldo, Spain
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- Ofthalmology Department, Miguel Servet University Hospital, 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Aragon Institute of Heatlh Research (IIS Aragón), 50009 Zaragoza, Spain
- Correspondence:
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Morken TS, Dammann O, Skranes J, Austeng D. Retinopathy of prematurity, visual and neurodevelopmental outcome, and imaging of the central nervous system. Semin Perinatol 2019; 43:381-389. [PMID: 31174874 DOI: 10.1053/j.semperi.2019.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023]
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Recent findings indicate that retinopathy of prematurity (ROP), presently classified by clinical examinations of retinal vascular tissue, is associated with structural alterations of the central nervous system. Such alterations may be the correlate of the association between ROP and impaired long-term neurocognitive and visual development. The advent of imaging techniques such as structural and diffusion tensor magnetic resonance imaging of the brain, and optical coherence tomography of the retina, will allow the complete visual system to be characterized in greater detail. It has been suggested that ROP may be not only a vascular, but a neurovascular disease, being part of a spectrum that includes pathological development in both the retinal and cerebral neurovascular interphase. We review the present knowledge in the field and point to future directions for research to tackle these questions.
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Affiliation(s)
- Tora Sund Morken
- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Norway and Department of Ophthalmology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway.
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Department of Public Health and Community Medicine, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Gynecology and Obstetrics, Hannover Medical School, Hannover, Germany
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- Department of Clinical and Molecular Medicine, NTNU, Trondheim, Norway; Department of Child Neurology and Rehabilitation and Regional Competence Center for children with prenatal alcohol/drug exposure, Sørlandet Hospital, Arendal, Norway
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- Department of Neuromedicine and Movement Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway; Norway and Department of Ophthalmology, St. Olavs Hospital, Trondheim University Hospital, Trondheim, Norway
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