'Level up': Churchill blind swimmer Lucas Lopez conquers it all on the swim team
Churchill freshman Lucas Lopez joined the swim team in November and is coached by alum and state record-holder Charley ...
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A Specific Congenital Brain Defect (Arhinencephaly) in 13–15 Trisomy
The olfactory bulbs and tracts were lacking (Fig. 3), and there was marked hypoplasia of the left optic nerve and eye. On microscopical examination the lungs were atelectatic, and the bronchi were ...
ABC Action News5d
Trusting the News: How a new crop of journalists are eager to change the industry
Excited, idealistic, and not jaded. Those are a few words ABC Action News reporter Michael Paluska would use to describe the ...
Frontiers8d
Anatomic Variation of the Lateral Sinus in Patients With Idiopathic Intracranial Hypertension: Delineation With Black-Blood Contrast-Enhanced MRI
The most common case is hypoplasia in unilateral sinus combined with anatomic ... and abnormal neuroimaging except for empty sella turcica, optic nerve sheath with filled out CSF spaces, and ...
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Pituitary stalk interruption syndrome with coexistent focal cortical dysplasia in a young boy
optic nerve hypoplasia, pituitary deficit and holoprosencephaly.2 Early detection, diagnosis and treatment are crucial to prevent future morbidities such as infertility, growth impairment, ...
BMJ8d
Epidemiology of blindness in children
Population-based epidemiological research, particularly on cerebral visual impairment and optic nerve hypoplasia, is needed in order to improve understanding of risk factors and to inform and support ...
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Novel ophthalmic findings and deep phenotyping in Williams-Beuren syndrome
All participants completed a dilated eye exam. Hypoplastic optic nerves were noted in five right eyes and seven left eyes of seven WBS patients. Mean retinal nerve fibre layer thickness for patients ...
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Real-world clinical and molecular management of 50 prospective patients with microphthalmia, anophthalmia and/or ocular coloboma
Abnormal intracranial findings (including hypoplastic corpus callosum ... but bilateral iris and chorioretinal colobomas and an optic nerve coloboma in the right eye. Patient 20–2 also had myopia, ...
The Herald-Dispatch10d
Meet Jake: Survivor of a rare congenital heart defect, lover of trains
HURRICANE, W.Va. — To live with half a heart is not to live half a life, according to the Baker family, and they would know. Andy and Kathy Bakers’ son Jake is a living, walking miracle.