INTRODUCTION: Patients with albinism have varying degrees of reduced vision,
strabismus, iris transillumination, nystagmus, fundus hypopigmentation, and foveal
hypoplasia. High refractive errors are common, but reduced vision persists due to
nonrefractive factors, causing reluctance by some clinicians to prescribe spectacles. We
sought to evaluate the effect of spectacle correction of refractive error on clinical findings and
recorded compliance with refractive corrections, as little detailed data exist. METHODS: We …