NEW YORK — A focus on follow-up care and monocular precautions may help improve outcomes in pediatric patients undergoing retinal repair, according to a presenter at OSN New York Retina.
Self-injurious behaviors that may contribute to ocular trauma, such as head banging and smacking of the face and eyes, have a prevalence of roughly 50% in pediatric patients diagnosed with intellectual disability, Vaidehi S. Dedania, MD, assistant professor of ophthalmology at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, said in the presentation. Such blunt trauma can result in traumatic cataract, glaucoma and