Pediatric Balint’s Syndrome Variant: A Possible Diagnosis in Children

Table 1

Profiles of children with features of Balint’s syndrome.

	Case  1	Case  2	Case  3	Case  4	Case  5
Age at presentation to the clinic	8 years	4 years	7 years	11 years	7 years
Gender	Male	Male	Male	Male	Female
Gestational age	32 weeks	40 weeks	36 weeks	32 weeks	36 weeks
Birth weight	1.2 kg	2.5 kg	1.8 kg	2.25 kg	2.0 kg
Antenatal complications	Pregnancy induced hypertension (PIH)	Nil	Nil	Nil	Nil
Effect of visual disability	Poor performance at school	Clumsiness	Poor performance at school	Poor performance at school	Poor performance at school
Visual acuity	6/60	6/48	6/24	6/6	6/24
Fundus	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal	Normal
Simultanagnostic visual dysfunction	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Optic ataxia	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Apraxia of gaze	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Problems with clutter, crowd, and lower field defect	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Difficulties recognizing faces, words, shapes, and objects	Present	Present	Present	Present	Present
Radiological findings	Biparietooccipital gliosis + corpus callosum thinning	Biparietooccipital gliosis +; corpus callosum thinning	Bilateral occipital gliosis + corpus callosum thinning	Biparietal gliosis + corpus callosum thinning	Mild posterior parietooccipital gliosis