• Characteristics and Utility of Fundus Autofluorescence in Congenital Aniridia Using Scanning Laser Ophthalmoscopy 

      Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Rueegg, Corina Silvia; Baraas, Rigmor C.; Lagali, Neil; Bragadottir, Ragnheidur; Moe, Morten Carsten; Utheim, Tor Paaske (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Purpose: To investigate fundus autofluorescence (FAF) and other fundus manifestations in congenital aniridia. Methods: Fourteen patients with congenital aniridia and 14 age- and sex-matched healthy controls were examined. ...
    • Color Vision in Aniridia 

      Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Hagen, Lene Aarvelta; Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Gilson, Stuart; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Utheim, Tor Paaske; Neitz, Maureen; Baraas, Rigmor C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose: To assess color vision and its association with retinal structure in persons with congenital aniridia. Methods: We included 36 persons with congenital aniridia (10–66 years), and 52 healthy, normal trichromatic ...
    • The cone photoreceptor mosaic in aniridia: within-family phenotype-genotype discordance 

      Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Neitz, Maureen; Gilson, Stuart; Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Utheim, Tor Paaske; Baraas, Rigmor C. (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2019)
      Purpose Investigate in vivo cone photoreceptor structure in familial aniridia caused by deletion in the PAX6 gene to elucidate the complexity of between-individual variation in retinal phenotype. Design Descriptive ...
    • Meibomian gland dysfunction and keratopathy are associated with dry eye disease in aniridia 

      Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Xiao, Jiaxin; Adil, Muhammed Yasin; Tashbayev, Behzod; Lagali, Neil; Dartt, Darlene Ann; Baraas, Rigmor C.; Utheim, Tor Paaske (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Aims To investigate the aetiology and characteristics of dry eye disease (DED) in a Nordic cohort of patients with congenital aniridia. Methods Thirty-four Norwegian and one Danish subject with congenital aniridia and 21 ...
    • Multimodal imaging of small hard retinal drusen in young healthy adults. 

      Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Gilson, Stuart; Dubra, Alfredo; Munch, Inger Christine; Larsen, Michael; Baraas, Rigmor C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      Background Small hard macular drusen can be observed in the retina of adults as young as 18 years of age. Here, we seek to describe the in vivo topography and geometry of these drusen. Methods Retinal images were acquired ...
    • Non-cycloplegic refraction cannot replace cycloplegic refraction when screening for refractive errors in children 

      Bjørset, Cecilie Onshuus; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Synstelien, Gro O.; Gilson, Stuart; Hagen, Lene Aarvelta; Langaas, Trine; Thorud, Hanne Mari Schiøtz; Vikesdal, Gro Horgen; Baraas, Rigmor C.; Svarverud, Ellen (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      The purpose was to assess the differences in spherical equivalent refractive error (SER) between cycloplegic autorefraction (1% cyclopentolate), non-cycloplegic autorefraction, and non-cycloplegic retinoscopy measured by ...
    • PAX6 Genotypic and Retinal Phenotypic Characterization in Congenital Aniridia 

      Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Baraas, Rigmor C.; Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Utheim, Tor Paaske; Gilson, Stuart; Neitz, Maureen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      PURPOSE: To investigate the association between PAX6 genotype and macular morphology in congenital aniridia. METHODS: The study included 37 participants (15 males) with congenital aniridia (aged 10–72 years) and 58 ...
    • Prevalence and Possible Factors of Myopia in Norwegian Adolescents 

      Hagen, Lene Aarvelta; Gjelle, Jon Vegard Barstad; Arnegard, Solveig; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Gilson, Stuart; Baraas, Rigmor C. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      East Asia has experienced an excessive increase in myopia in the past decades with more than 80% of the younger generation now affected. Environmental and genetic factors are both assumed to contribute in the development ...
    • The Retina in Congenital Aniridia - Structural, Functional and Genetic Variability 

      Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg (Doctoral dissertations at the University of South-Eastern Norway;67, Doctoral thesis, 2020-05-12)
      Aniridia is a rare, congenital eye disorder most commonly caused by a mutation in the PAX6 gene, which affects eye development and leads to a range of ocular anomalies, including iris- and foveal hypoplasia and vision ...
    • Single-cone imaging in inherited and acquired colour vision deficiencies 

      Baraas, Rigmor C.; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Hagen, Lene Aarvelta (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Colour vision deficiencies are common in humans and occur both as a consequence of inherited cone opsin mutations, altering the number or function of the different cone types expressed in the retina, and acquired through ...
    • The level of inflammatory tear cytokines is elevated in congenital Aniridia and associated with meibomian gland dysfunction 

      Landsend, Erlend Christoffer Sommer; Utheim, Øygunn Aass; Pedersen, Hilde Røgeberg; Aass, Hans Christian Dalsbotten; Lagali, Neil; Dartt, Darlene Ann; Baraas, Rigmor C.; Utheim, Tor Paaske (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)
      Purpose: To investigate the tear cytokine profile in congenital aniridia, and correlate cytokine levels with ophthalmologic findings. Methods: We examined 35 patients with aniridia and 21 healthy controls. Tear fluid ...