Medical Student Research Forum Posters

• 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.