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Congenital blindness refers to blindness present at birth. [1] Congenital blindness is sometimes used interchangeably with "Childhood Blindness." However, current literature has various definitions of both terms.
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a cause of childhood blindness that can occur around the time of birth. Generally, measures taken to avoid preterm birth are also effective at preventing ROP. Babies delivered preterm, defined at or before 37 weeks of gestation, have incomplete development of the blood vessels supplying the retina. [21]
Almost all infants with ROP have a gestational age of 31 weeks or less (regardless of birth weight) or a birth weight of 1250 g (2.76 lbs) or less; these indications are generally used to decide whether a baby should be screened for ROP, but some centres, especially in developing countries, extend birth weight screening criteria to 1500 g (3.3 ...
"Oh my gosh." "This is so amazing." "Oh my gosh." This is the moment Kathy Beitz thought would never happen. A genetic condition caused her to lose almost all of her sight when she was 11. She was ...
A seven-week-old human baby following a kinetic object. Infant vision concerns the development of visual ability in human infants from birth through the first years of life. The aspects of human vision which develop following birth include visual acuity, tracking, color perception, depth perception, and object recognition.
Blind mothers can now feel their children before they’re born and experience the same joy sighted mothers have when viewing ultrasounds.
Sadaya Paige, 12, who has been blind since birth, sings to her baby sister, Alani. The sweet video is going viral.
For some, this condition might happen congenitally from birth as a result of genetic defect, for others it happens suddenly due to a form of illness or accident that results in a modality deprivation of either vision or hearing, or both. [8] A person might be born deaf and become blind at a later stage in life, or vice versa.