ALLMedicine™ Anophthalmos Center

Aug 24th, 2020 - To describe the clinical features, visual acuity and causes of ocular morbidity in children (0-18 years) with microphthalmos, anophthalmos, and coloboma (MAC) from North India. A retrospective study conducted between October 2017 and September 201...

Jan 25th, 2020 - Cranio-orbital trauma is an uncommon yet devastating injury, especially one in the setting of a high-energy gunshot wound. Such injuries were historically reported in the setting of military conflict, and are associated with vision-threatening com...

Nov 28th, 2019 - Bilateral Tessier cleft types 3 and 4 are rare and commonly involve the lacrimal drainage system owing to their anatomical location. Such clefts commonly present with associated ocular anomalies and include colobomatous eyelids, hypertelorism, mic...

Nov 14th, 2019 - Background: Patients with intellectual disability syndromes frequently have coexisting abnormalities of ocular structures and the visual pathway system. The microphthalmos, anophthalmos, and coloboma (MAC) spectrum represent structural development...

Nov 11th, 2019 - Recent studies highlighted a link between ionizing radiation exposure during neurulation and birth defects such as microphthalmos and anophthalmos. Because the mechanisms underlying these defects remain largely unexplored, we irradiated pregnant C...

Aug 31st, 2011 - Antiepileptic Drugs and Teratogenicity A recently published epidemiologic study suggests that prenatal exposure to any of 5 new antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) in the first trimester of pregnancy is not associated with major congenital malformations.[1...