Patients with idiopathic infantile nystagmus syndrome had better best-corrected visual acuity but scored lower on quality-of-life assessments compared with those whose condition was associated with ocular disease, according to research.
“Idiopathic infantile nystagmus syndrome is the most common type in clinical practice,” Claudia Fossataro, MD, of the Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome, and colleagues wrote in Optometry and Vision Science. “It typically occurs in the absence of other ocular or systemic disorders, and it is clinically characterized by a