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ArticleDocumenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology2009

Paradoxical robust visual evoked potentials in young patients with cortical blindness.

Tamara Wygnanski-Jaffe, Carole M Panton, J Raymond Buncic, Carol A Westall

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Article in Documenta ophthalmologica. Advances in ophthalmology, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 7 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Tamara Wygnanski-JaffeDepartment of Ophthalmology and Vision Sciences, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. twjaffe@hotmail.com
Carole M Panton
J Raymond Buncic
Carol A Westall
Hospital for Sick Children · CASheba Medical Center · IL

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The objective of this study was to review retrospectively cases of clinically blind children in whom robust pattern visual evoked potentials (VEPs) were recorded. VEP records from a 10-year period (1990-2000) were reviewed. We searched for charts of children who were clinically cortically blind, but in whom assessment of visual acuity, using visual evoked potentials (VEPs), was normal or close to normal. The majority (77.5%) of VEP and behavioral acuity measures were concordant (subset analysis). Of the 1,113 VEP records, 9 cases (<1% of records reviewed) had clinically compromised vision with fair to good levels of visual function using VEPs. The commonality among the cases was the presence of suspected cortical visual impairment with seizures and developmental delay. VEP acuity cannot be correlated unequivocally with visually guided behaviour. In specific cases, particularly cases with developmental delay and neuroradiographic abnormalities, a child who is behaviorally blind with no clinical evidence of vision may show robust VEPs even to small patterns. This finding might be consistent with a defect of the visual association cortex.

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Blindness, CorticalChild, PreschoolDevelopmental DisabilitiesEvoked Potentials, VisualFemaleHumansInfantMaleRetrospective StudiesVisual Acuity

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