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Thyroid ophthalmopathy is frequently missed at the beginning; most of them are minor and don't need any treatment. The severe and active ophthalmopathies only need to be cured. The well-established therapeutics are currently corticosteroids and orbital radiotherapy. Associating their use maximizes their respective effects.
This cross-sectional study investigated the relationship between different lighting conditions experienced during sleep in the first -two years of life and development of myopia after age two as reported retrospectively by parents in a total of 469 individuals, including 252 children aged 2-16 yr., and 217 adults aged 17-40 yr. There were no significant differences in incidence of myopia in children who had slept from 0-2 yr. in darkness, with a night light, room light, or hall light. Adults who were reported by their parents to have slept with a night light on from 0-2 yr. were significantly more likely to be myopic than those who were reported to have slept from 0-2 yr. in any other lighting condition.
This paper describes two cases of unilateral exophtalmos and reviews the diagnostic and therapeutic approach to this clinical entity.
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This study compared the sensory status of 23 patients (19 children and 4 adults) before and after treatment with total hypermetropic correction. We have shown that binocular improvement can be obtained in every category of strabismological pathology, including exotropia, with the exception of early onset micro-strabismus. Three cases of late onset micro-strabismus (one divergent and two convergent) where total sensory cure was obtained are also described. We confirm the slow clinical progression of hypermetropia in the strabismic patient provided with total optical correction. The two examples reported, as well as our cursory review of recent literature, provide justification for the early, systematic prescription of total optical correction for strongly hypermetropic children (> 4 D).