Samantha Harding
Royal College of Ophthalmologists
UK
Title: Papilloedema in children - now you see it now you don't
Biography
Biography: Samantha Harding
Abstract
The diagnosis of papilloedema can be elusive at the best of times but in children it can present particular challenges. Children are often sent to the eye clinic because "blurry disc margins" are visualised on direct ophthalmoscopy or retinal photography but these can represent normal structural variants. Ultrasound can be helpful, quickly distinguishing an obvious drusen and autofluorescence and enhanced depth imaging can be helpful in a buried druse. Can electrophysiology also be of assistance? This talk will look at some of the challenges diagnosis of true papilloedema can present and clinical and imaging modalities that can assist in making a diagnosis of swelling of the optic nerve head due to raised intracranial pressure.
