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In the recent pediatric ophthalmology and strabismus literature, there have been some important papers. Topics have included ocular outcomes in children born before 32 weeks of gestation, a practical correlate of Teller visual acuities and visual behavior in a real environment in a severely handicapped child, and a debate on the indications and efficacy of population screening for amblyopia. New information on the creation of refractive errors by earlier eyelid closure than used previously and a new torsionometer represent new sensory information. New information about motor adaptations in strabismus includes a new evaluation of saccade disconjugacy in deep amblyopia and in anisometropia. Spasmus nutans may be a long-term rather than a self-limiting disease, and the debate on neuroimaging in this condition has been evaluated. A subtle predictor of outcome in the surgical treatment of partially accommodative esotropia is presented, as well as an important case report on the treatment of a metabolic cause of strabismus in chronic progressive external ophthalmoplegia with coenzyme Q10. Finally, some information is presented on the treatment of hereditary retinal dystrophies with nonautologous retinal pigment epithelial cell transplants to the subretinal space of the dystrophic retina-the first experimental model of a successful biologic treatment of which I am aware and a possible indicator of future trends in human disease.
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PMID:Pediatric ophthalmology. 1016 5

The Heimann-Bielschowsky phenomenon (HBP) refers to coarse vertical oscillation of the eye with impaired vision. The ocular movements are strictly monocular, occurring only in the eye with amblyopia. The vertical oscillation is of equal velocity in both vertical directions, or may sometimes be greater in the downward than upward direction. HBP develops several years after loss of vision. It can be differentiated from dissociated nystagmus in spasmus nutans, congenital nystagmus and internuclear ophthalmoplegia based on the strict unilaterality, vertical direction and low frequency. Previously, only a few reports described the development of oscillopsia due to HBP after cataract surgery, which resolved spontaneously or responded to gabapentin. However, visual impairments due to diplopia or oscillopsia from HBP after cataract surgery have received little attention. We report a man who developed persistent vertical diplopia and oscillopsia due to HBP after a cataract operation, which markedly impaired his vision.
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PMID:Emergence of diplopia and oscillopsia due to Heimann-Bielschowsky phenomenon after cataract surgery. 1881 21