An estimated 14 million of the world's children are blind. A blind child is more likely to live in
socioeconomic deprivation, to be more frequently hospitalised during childhood and to die …

Opinion statement Background: Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH) has developed into a leading
cause of congenital blindness. The frequently associated features of hypopituitarism and …

Background Septo-optic dysplasia (SOD) is a rare condition diagnosed in children with two
or more of the following: hypopituitarism, midline brain abnormalities, and optic nerve …

Purpose The aim was to describe the population of children with congenital or early infancy
blindness in Sweden, with regard to causes of blindness and prevalence of …

The formation and maturation of the human brain is regulated by highly coordinated
developmental events, such as neural cell proliferation, migration and differentiation. Any …

Introduction This article describes the most prevalent visual conditions and other
demographic characteristics of 5,931 young children with severe visual impairments in 28 …

There remains great interest in understanding the relationship between visual impairment
(VI) and autism spectrum disorder (ASD) due to the extraordinarily high prevalence of ASD …

Objective Recent studies have suggested that mutations in genes encoding several
hypothalamo–pituitary (H–P) transcription factors result in hypopituitarism [isolated GH …

Owing to early observations of co-occurrence with agenesis of the septum pellucidum and
hypopituitarism [6, 7], ONH has long been recognized as part of the septo-optic dysplasia …

Optic nerve hypoplasia (ONH), a congenital malformation characterized by an
underdeveloped optic nerve, is a seemingly epidemic cause of childhood blindness and …