purpose: to compare the results of three-piece and one- piece hydrophobic acrylic posterior chamber intraocular lens (iol) with poly methyl metacrylate (pmma) iol implanted during lensectomy, posterior capsulotomy and anterior vitrectomy for congenital or developmental cataract. methods: this is a historical cohort study conducted on patients with congenital or developmental cataract who underw...

Pediatric cataract is totally different from adult cataract. The objective of this review article is to describe the peculiarities of pediatric cataract and the controversies and practices in pediatric cataract surgery. The differences in the surgical technique are discussed in the article. There are lots of controversies regarding IOL implantation in children. The result of the review is that ...

PURPOSE To determine the long-term risk of retinal detachment following pediatric cataract surgery and to identify risk factors for retinal detachment. METHODS We included all children (aged 0 to 17 years) who during the time period of 1977 to 2005 underwent pediatric cataract surgery in Denmark, excluding cataract cases caused by trauma, or acquired systemic or acquired ocular pathology, and...

PURPOSE To assess for phenotype-genotype correlations in families with recessive pediatric cataract and identified gene mutations. METHODS Retrospective review (2004 through 2013) of 26 Saudi Arabian apparently nonsyndromic pediatric cataract families referred to one of the authors (A.O.K.) and for which recessive gene mutations were identified. RESULTS Fifteen different homozygous recessiv...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of strabismus and chronological, etiological, and morphological features in patients with pediatric cataracts. METHODS Medical records of pediatric patients were evaluated at the Congenital Cataract Section, Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, from 2001 to 2011. Patients with congenital cataract or developmental cata...

Pediatric cataract is a leading cause of childhood blindness. This study aimed to determine the genetic cause of pediatric cataract in Australian families by screening known disease-associated genes using massively parallel sequencing technology. We sequenced 51 previously reported pediatric cataract genes in 33 affected individuals with a family history (cases with previously known or publishe...

PURPOSE To study occurrence, morphology, immunofluorescence, and ultrastructural features of congenital anterior capsular plaque (ACP) obtained from pediatric eyes undergoing cataract surgery. METHODS Two hundred sixty consecutive pediatric eyes undergoing congenital cataract surgery were enrolled in the present study. Anterior lens epithelium from cataract without ACP and with ACP was collec...

PURPOSE To compile international data on the risk factors, diagnosis, and treatment of endophthalmitis following pediatric cataract surgery. METHODS An e-mail containing a link to an online survey was sent to all members of the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus. The questionnaire examined the incidence, risk factors, treatment, outcomes, and prophylaxis of endoph...

Sutureless 23G vitreorrhexis could be used as a surgical tool for anterior capsulorrhexis (ACCC), irrigation, aspiration and posterior capsulorrhexis (PCCC) in pediatric cataract. Patients and methods: A prospective consecutive randomized clinical trial of 48 patients less than two years old underwent bilateral pediatric cataract surgeries. These patients were divided into two equal groups. Gro...