Ophthalmic manifestations in children and young adults with Down syndrome and congenital heart defects

Почитувани колешки и колеги,
Со задоволство сакам да ве информирам дека денес излезе од печат нашиот најнов труд во списание со импакт фактор. Се работи за следниот труд:

Ljubic A, Trajkovski V, Tesic M, Tojtovska B, Stankovic B. Ophthalmic manifestations in children and young adults with Down syndrome and congenital heart defects. Ophthalmic Epidemiology 2015; 22(2): 123–129. DOI: 10.3109/09286586.2015.1017652.
Имено, списанието Ophthalmic Epidemiology со ISSN број 0928-6586 има импакт фактор 1.271 за 2013 година. Ова е еден наш скромен подарок за децата со Down syndrome и нивните семејства на 4 дена пред меѓународниот ден на лицата со Down syndrome. Во продолжение ви го проследувам апстрактот од трудот.

ABSTRACT
Purpose: To investigate whether different types of ocular manifestations are associated with congenital heart
disease (CHD) in a large Caucasian population of children and young adults with Down syndrome (DS).
Methods: Population-based, case-control study which included 185 subjects with DS (mean age 13.2 ± 7.9 years), who reported presence or absence of CHD; DS with CHD group (51 subjects, mean age 10.6 ± 5.6 years) and DS without CHD (134 subjects, mean age 14.2 ± 8.4 years).
Results: In our sample with DS and CHD, strabismus was found in 15 subjects (29.4%), nystagmus in 1 (2.0%), epiblepharon in 21 (41.2%) and Brushfield spots in 15 (31.3%). In the DS without CHD group, strabismus was found in 38 participants (28.4%), nystagmus in 13 (9.7%), epiblepharon in 31 (23.5%) and Brushfield spots in 21 (16.0%). Only the variables epiblepharon and presence of Brushfield spots differed significantly between the two groups (p = 0.02 and p = 0.03, respectively). Hyperopia was present in 26 participants (53.1%) in the DS with CHD group, and in 65 (57.0%) in the DS without CHD group. Oblique astigmatism was present in 25 (52.1%) in the DS with CHD group and in 61 (53.5%) in the DS without CHD group.
Conclusions: Frequencies of DS participants presenting with strabismus, nystagmus, hyperopia and oblique
astigmatism were not statistically different between those with CHD and those without CHD in this sample.
Further studies are needed to confirm if there are associations between the presence of Brushfield spots or
epiblepharon and CHD in patients with DS.

Keywords: Brushfield spots, congenital heart defects, Down syndrome, epiblepharon, nystagmus, refractive
errors, strabismus