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Application of new ophthalmic technology in the pediatric patient.

Hutcheson KA

Ophthalmology and Pediatrics, Children's National Medical Center, George Washington University, School of Medicine, Washington, District of Columbia 20010, USA. khutches@cnmc.org

PURPOSE OF REVIEW: The present review will summarize briefly the recent advances in diagnostic tools, surgical techniques, and ophthalmic medications as they relate to the pediatric patient. The review will highlight results from studies that have investigated these new technologies and techniques. RECENT FINDINGS: In the past several years there has been a plethora of literature on the application of new technologies and surgical techniques in children. New tools have been used for everything from gathering normative data about the pediatric eye to using the technologies to study diseases such as glaucoma and ocular tumors. Results of surgical techniques such as small-incision cataract surgery, sutureless vitrectomy, and refractive surgery are now reported with regularity in the pediatric ophthalmology literature. SUMMARY: In the past 10 years pediatric ophthalmology has made significant advances. Technology has enabled us to qualify and quantify disease states more efficiently, and to explore new surgical techniques for disease processes that were formerly considered relatively untreatable.

Published 16 August 2007 in Curr Opin Ophthalmol, 18(5): 384-91.
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