Children's Vision

Children's VisionThe aim of our work is to improve the clinical and cost effectiveness of the treatment of visual disorders in children, particularly the common conditions of strabismus and amblyopia. We hope to improve the treatment these conditions, which currently is often burdensome to children and families, and demonstrate how to achieve excellent results while causing minimal disruption to families. This should also improve resource use in the NHS.

Our work covers clinical trials, development of new outcome measures, qualitative research, and, in collaboration with neuroscientific colleagues, investigation of the underlying causes of strabismus and amblyopia.

Group Members:

Selected Publications:

Intermittent Exotropia:
  • The Newcastle Control Score: a new method of grading the severity of intermittent exotropia. Haggerty H, Richardson S, Hrisos S, Strong NP, Clarke MPBritish Journal of Ophthalmology 2004 88(2):233-5
    Surgery for Intermittent Exotropia Richardson SR, Clarke MP. International Review of Modern Surgery. 2004 36 – 37
  • Frisby Davis distance stereoacuity values in normal children. Adams WE, Hrisos S, Richardson S, Davis H, Frisby JP, Clarke MP. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 2005 89(11): 1438-1441.
  • Distance Stereoacuity in Intermittent Exotropia. Hatt SR, Haggerty H, Buck D, Adams W, Strong NP, Clarke MP
    Br. J. Ophthalmol. 2007; 91(2): p. 219-221
  • The use of the Newcastle Control Score in the management of Intermittent Exotropia. Buck D, Hatt SR, Haggerty H, Hrisos S, Strong NP, Steen NI, Clarke MP. Br. J. Ophthalmol. 2007; 91(2): p. 215-218
  • Intermittent Exotropia. Clarke, MP. J Pediatr Ophthalmol Strabismus 2007 44(3) 153-157
  • Intermittent Exotropia. Clarke MP, Strong N, Buck D, Powell C, Tiffin P, Davis H, Dawson E, Sloper J, Rahi J
    Ophthalmology 2007; 114(7):1416; author reply 1416 (letter).
  • Intermittent and Basic Exotropia In Current Ocular Therapy 6th edition Chapter 218 p 405-407 Eds F Hampton Roy, Frederick W Fraunfelder. Elsevier Inc 2008
  • Grading the severity of intermittent distance exotropia: the Revised Newcastle Control Score. Buck D, Clarke MP, Haggerty H, Hrisos S, Powell C, Sloper J, Strong NP. Br J Ophthalmol 2008;92 577
  • Presenting Features and Early Management of Childhood Intermittent Exotropia in the UK: Inception Cohort Study. Deborah Buck, Christine Powell, Phillipa Cumberland, Robert Taylor, John Sloper, Peter Tiffin, Helen Davis, Jugnoo Rahi, and Michael P Clarke. Br J Ophthalmol 2009;93:1620-1624
  • Visual Suppression in Intermittent Exotropia during Binocular Alignment. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza, Vina Manjunath, Olaoluwakitan Osunkunle, Michael P. Clarke, and Jenny C. A. Read. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2011; 52(5): p. 2352-2364
  • Single vision during ocular deviation in intermittent exotropia. Ignacio Serrano-Pedraza, Michael P Clarke, Jenny CA Read. Ophthalmic and Physiological Optics Volume 31, Issue 1, pages 45–55, January 2011
  • Use of the PedsQL in childhood intermittent exotropia: estimates of feasibility, internal consistency reliability and parent–child agreement. Deborah Buck, Michael P. Clarke, Christine Powell, Peter Tiffin and Robert F. Drewett. Quality of Life Research DOI: 10.1007/s11136-011-9975-7Online First™
Retinal Haemorrhage in Infancy:
  • Vitreoretinal traction is a major factor in causing the haemorrhagic retinopathy of abusive head injury? – No
    Clarke MP. Eye. 2009 Sep;23(9):1761-3.
Amblyopia:
  • 2010 Annual Evidence Update on Amblyopia - Clinical Outcomes of Amblyopia and/or its Treatment, Clarke MP