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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Dev Med Child Neurol. 2021 May 24;63(11):1308–1315. doi: 10.1111/dmcn.14908

Table 2. Ophthalmologic features of a cohort of 26 individuals with CDD who underwent neurological and ophthalmological evaluations in the CDKL5 clinic at Boston Children’s Hospital.

cpd = cycles per degree; IQR = interquartile range; PL= preferential looking; sVEP = sweep visual evoked potential; y = year

Ophthalmologic clinical characteristics N(%) or Median [IQR]
Ophthalmologic findings
 Diagnosis of cerebral visual impairment, >2 years of age 21/21 (100.0%)
 Structural eye abnormalities 0/26 (0.0%)
 Nystagmus 10/26 (28.4%)
 Strabismus 24/26 (92.3%)
Age at testing and number of visits
 Age (y) at first visual acuity assessment (N=24) 1.3 y [0.9, 2.3]
 Age (y) at most recent visual acuity assessment (N=24) 3.0 y [1.0, 8.2]
 Number of visits with assessment of visual acuity (N=26) 3 [2, 8]
PL acuity testing attempted 24/26 (92.3%)
 Patients with measureable PL acuity, N (%) 20/24 (83.3%)
 Patients with PL test performed, no response, N (%) 4/24 (16.7%)
 Best PL acuity 2 years or older (N=16), median [IQR] 4.6 cpd [1.7, 6.9]
sVEP acuity testing attempted 13/26 (50%)
 Patients with measureable VEP acuity, N (%) 13/13 (100%)
 Best VEP acuity 2 years or older (N=8), median [IQR] 12.2 cpd [7.1, 16.6]