Ocular Manifestations of Pediatric Systemic Disease

An ocular manifestation of a systemic disease is an ocular condition that directly or indirectly results from a pathologic process from another part of the body. Ocular manifestations can occur in various systemic diseases in pediatrics. However, ocular manifestations are difficult to recognize especially in pediatric diseases because most clinicians ignore ocular involvement of systemic diseases. Ocular manifestations can be the first findings of systemic disease in some pediatric disease, and numerous ocular manifestations can be associated with amblyopia, which is a disorder of sight. Therefore we must be able to recognize the ocular manifestations for diagnosis and management of pediatric systemic diseases. Although we cannot deal with ocular manifestations of all pediatric systemic disease in this paper, we have reviewed particular diseases that are may be of interest to the general physician and pediatric ophthalmologists. This paper aims to review the ocular manifestations of various pediatric diseases. HYPERTHYROIDISM