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Optotype acuity and re-operation rate after unilateral cataract surgery during the first 6 months of life with or without IOL implantation
- Source :
- The British journal of ophthalmology. 88(11)
- Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- To compare optotype acuities and re-operation rates in children corrected with a contact lens (CL) compared with an intraocular lens (IOL) following unilateral cataract extraction during infancy in a non-randomised, retrospective case series.25 infants with a unilateral congenital cataract underwent cataract surgery with (IOL group, n = 12) or without (CL group, n = 13) IOL implantation when7 months of age. Optotype acuities were assessed in 19 of these children at a mean age of 4.3 years (range 3.3-5.5 years). The number of re-operations were assessed in 21 children.The visual acuity results were similar in the two treatment groups (p = 0.99); however, two of the four (50%) children in the IOL group compared with two of the seven (28%) children in the CL group undergoing surgery during the first 6 weeks of life had 20/40 or better visual acuity. The children in the IOL group had more re-operations than the children in the CL group (mean 1.1 v 0.36). Most of the re-operations in the IOL group were membranectomies performed during the first year of life (median 8.0 months) whereas all of the re-operations in the CL group were the implantation of a secondary IOL later in childhood (mean 2.2 years).Optotype acuities were similar for the children corrected with a CL compared with IOL, while the children in the IOL group underwent more re-operations .
- Subjects :
- Reoperation
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
genetic structures
medicine.medical_treatment
Eye disease
Visual Acuity
Clinical Science - Scientific Reports
Intraocular lens
Cataract Extraction
Cataract
Cellular and Molecular Neuroscience
Lens Implantation, Intraocular
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Child
Retrospective Studies
Lenses, Intraocular
business.industry
Infant, Newborn
Unilateral cataract
Infant
Retrospective cohort study
Cataract surgery
medicine.disease
Sensory Systems
eye diseases
Surgery
Contact lens
Treatment Outcome
sense organs
medicine.symptom
business
Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedure
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 00071161
- Volume :
- 88
- Issue :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- The British journal of ophthalmology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....445f812d99654108c784b6aea7bd7bed