Strabismus

Amblyopia is a common visual disorder that caused by abnormal neural development in the childhood usually due to anisometropia, strabismus, cataract or combination of them. Amblyopia leads to many monocular and binocular problems with the affected eye such as impaired visual acuity, contrast sensitivity, motion perception, excessive crowding and impaired or absence of stereopsis. In critical period the visual acuity deficit linked with amblyopia can be treated monocularly by correcting the refractive

What is botulism? - A social aspect of a disease in the US and its global impact Botulism is a serious neuromuscular poisoning caused by a nerve toxin that is produced by the bacterium Clostridium botulinum. Historical records report that Sumerians invented sausages around 3000 b.c in what is present day Iraq(). Between 1817 and 1822, Kerner from Germany published and completed an accurate description of what he called wurstgift or “sausage poison” after suspecting biological poisoning related to

One condition Siamese cats have is convergent strabismus. This means that the Siamese cats have a cross eyed gene in their DNA. Not every Siamese cat or breed has this defect due to less faults in selective breeding. Another health concern is they may have kinked tails. Also know as coccygeal hemivertebrae

As a junior student of Physical Therapy, working in a pediatric hospital was very difficult for me in the beginning; I can never forget my first patient, “Zahra”, a five-year-old girl with complex abnormalities, including Myelomeningocele, Strabismus and Cerebral palsy. It was a complete nightmare to me. I had heard from senior students that this girl was not curable and there was nothing to do for her to improve her condition; but I didn’t succumb. I just knew that I should do everything that I

“Mom , I want to be just like her when I grow up” I said as we were leaving the doctor’s office for an annual check up . From then on, I knew I wanted to bee a children’s doctor. I didn 't know what the profession was called at such a young age, but as I grew up I learned that the official name was, Pediatrician. I knew this was my career since I was eight years old. Since then, I have landed on a career of Pediatric surgery. Being a pediatric surgeon requires a lot of time and

congenital, which means albinism is acquired in the uterus and is not hereditary. People with albinism can have many little things that are not normal including hypoplasia in which organs are below normal size and never develop into full size and strabismus in which the eyes cannot have binocular vision also known as squinting. All people affected with OCA has hypopigmentation and nystagmus, which includes rapid eye movement. (Grønskov, Ek, & Bronaum-Nielson, 2007) The lesser extreme of Oculocutaneous

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There are vast amounts of people that we come into contact with during our lives. Yet, amongst these immense amounts of people, only some become memorable in a good way. Of those people, there are family members that will always be special at all times. There are friends that have those irreplaceable memories of fun times. There are also the adults that guide us in times of trouble or need. However, people that will always be special in our hearts come few and far between. Joanne Hewitt is one of

Kids also get strabismus, which means one or even both eyes turn out, in down or up. Another side effect is amblyopia, which is a lazy eye that is not treated within the first six to nine years it could become permanent. But the good thing is that most common eye conditions

Sotos syndrome (OMIM 117550), was first described by Juan Sotos (Sotos et al., 1964) in five patients with prenatal and postnatal overgrowth, characteristic facial appearance, advanced bone age and developmental delay. The majority of cases are sporadic, but autosomal dominant pedigrees have been published (Kurotaki et al., 2003). Sotos syndrome also known as cerebral gigantism, characterized by excessive growth resulting in tall stature and macrocephaly. These three cardinal features are each present