Mechanisms compensating for visual field restriction in adolescents with damage to the retro-geniculate visual system

• Published in: Eye (London) Vol. 26; no. 11; pp. 1437 - 1445
• Main Authors: Jacobson, L, Lennartsson, F, Pansell, T, Öqvist Seimyr, G, Martin, L
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group UK 01.11.2012; Nature Publishing Group
• Subjects: 692/698/1688/512/2613; 692/699/375/1345; 692/700/1720; Adolescent; adolescents; Biological and medical sciences; Brain Neoplasms - complications; Case reports; Cerebral Palsy - complications; Clinical Study; compensating mechanisms; Exotropia - etiology; Exotropia - physiopathology; Eye Movements - physiology; Fixation, Ocular - physiology; Geniculate Bodies - physiopathology; Hemianopsia - etiology; Hemianopsia - physiopathology; Humans; Laboratory Medicine; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Miscellaneous; Ophthalmology; Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology; Prospective Studies; retro-geniculate visual system; Surgery; Surgical Oncology; VF defects; Vision, Binocular - physiology; Visual Acuity - physiology; Visual Field Tests; Visual Fields - physiology; Visual Pathways - physiopathology; retro-geniculate visual system; adolescents; compensating mechanisms; VF defects; Human; Visual system; Visual field; Adolescent; Defect; Ophthalmology; Mechanism

Background To describe visual field (VF) outcome in three adolescents with damage to the optic radiation and to focus on mechanisms that may compensate the practical functional limitations of VF defects. Design Descriptive, prospective multi-case study in a hospital setting. Participants Three teena...