Congenital Ocular Motor Apraxia: Sporadic and Familial

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Title Congenital Ocular Motor Apraxia: Sporadic and Familial
Creator Palimar Prasad, FRCS; Suresh Nair, MD
Affiliation Department of Ophthalmology, Qatif Central Hospital, Saudi Arabia
Abstract Four patients aged between 9 months and 17 years were detected to have congenital ocular motor apraxia (COMA) over a 10-month period. Three of them were siblings. All exhibited the classical signs of a horizontal saccadic palsy. However, the signs were less pronounced with increasing age of the patient. This supports the observations of other authors who have noted an age-related resolution. There was no evidence of other motor developmental delay in any of the patients and computed tomography revealed no abnormalities. Both these findings are in contradistinction to prior reports of central nervous system abnormalities and motor and speech difficulties in COMA. The family of three appears to be the largest sibling cluster reported so far.
Subject Adolescent; Apraxias/genetics; Apraxias/physiopathology; Child; Eye Movements; Female; Humans; Infant; Male; Ocular Motility Disorders/congenital; Ocular Motility Disorders/physiopathology; Saccades
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Date 1994-06
Language eng
Format application/pdf
Type Text
Publication Type Journal Article
Collection Neuro-Ophthalmology Virtual Education Library: Journal of Neuro-Ophthalmology Archives: https://novel.utah.edu/jno/
Publisher Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
Holding Institution Spencer S. Eccles Health Sciences Library, University of Utah
Rights Management © North American Neuro-Ophthalmology Society
ARK ark:/87278/s6bk4jd0
Setname ehsl_novel_jno
ID 224495
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6bk4jd0
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