• Pediatric Glaucoma is a heterogeneous group of disorders with unique management challenges, namely an uncommon occurrence, with restricted evaluation techniques, and young patients.
• Challenges faced in treatment plans:
• Young eyes are more sensitive so elevated IOP can cause structural changes to the eye (e.g. buphthalmos)
• Etiology of vision impairment is multifactorial
• Previously studied risk factors for visual impairment are unilateral disease, multiple surgeries, poor vision at diagnosis, and other ocular comorbidities.
• Chang et. al (2018) conducted a pilot study of 15 pediatric patients and examined the impact of certain predictive factors on long-term visual acuity and IOPcontrol outcomes and creating a severity scale.
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