ArticleInternational journal of ophthalmology2017
Timing and approaches in congenital cataract surgery: a four-year, two-layer randomized controlled trial.
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- Glaucoma following cataract surgery in pediatric patients: a systematic review of incidence, risk factors, and management strategies.BMC ophthalmology · 2026Pooled it
- Surgical interventions for bilateral congenital cataract in children aged two years and under.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2022Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of vitrectomy for congenital cataract surgery: a systematic review and meta-analysis based on randomized and controlled trials.Acta ophthalmologica · 2019Pooled it
- Long-Term Visual Acuity in Young Children After Lensectomy for Congenital Cataract.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Oxidative Stress in Genetic Cataract Formation.Antioxidants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Predictive Factors of Complications and Visual Outcomes after Pediatric Cataract Surgery: A Single Referral Center Study from Türkiye.Turkish journal of ophthalmology · 2023Observational
- Artificial intelligence manages congenital cataract with individualized prediction and telehealth computing.NPJ digital medicine · 2020Article
- Automatic diagnosis of imbalanced ophthalmic images using a cost-sensitive deep convolutional neural network.Biomedical engineering online · 2017Article
- Current management of infantile cataracts.Survey of ophthalmologyReview
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Abstract
aimTo compare visual prognoses and postoperative adverse events of congenital cataract surgery performed at different times and using different surgical approaches.
methodsIn this prospective, randomized controlled trial, we recruited congenital cataract patients aged 3mo or younger before cataract surgery. Sixty-one eligible patients were randomly assigned to two groups according to surgical timing: a 3-month-old group and a 6-month-old group. Each eye underwent one of three randomly assigned surgical procedures, as follows: surgery A, lens aspiration (I/A); surgery B, lens aspiration with posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (I/A+PCCC); and surgery C, lens aspiration with posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis and anterior vitrectomy (I/A+PCCC+A-Vit). The long-term best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) and the incidence of complications in the different groups were compared and analyzed.
resultsA total of 57 participants (114 eyes) with a mean follow-up period of 48.7mo were included in the final analysis. The overall logMAR BCVA in the 6-month-old group was better than that in the 3-month-old group (0.81±0.28
conclusionIt might be safer and more beneficial for bilateral total congenital cataract patients to undergo surgery at 6mo of age than 3mo. Moreover, with rigorous follow-up and timely intervention, the postoperative complications in these patients are treatable and do not compromise visual outcomes.
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