Long term outcomes of bilateral congenital and developmental cataracts operated in Maharashtra, India. Miraj pediatric cataract study III

• Main Authors: Parikshit M Gogate, Mohini Sahasrabudhe, Mitali Shah, Shailbala Patil, Anil N Kulkarni, Rupal Trivedi, Divya Bhasa, Rahin Tamboli, Rekha Mane
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications 2014-01-01
• Series: Indian Journal of Ophthalmology
• Subjects: Blindness; cataract; eye lens; risk factors; treatment of cataract; Low vision care; multiple disabilities and visual impairment; reading performance; Accommodation; presbyopia; supraciliary segment implants; Amblyopia; citicoline; patching; Corneal endothelium; human corneal endothelial precursor cells; in vitro expansion; sphere forming assay; thermo-reversible gelation polymer; transportation; Endophthalmitis; explantation; fungal; intraocular lens; postoperative; recurrent; Colour perception; learning disabilities; school children; stereo acuity; testability; visual acuity; Contracted socket; dermis fat graft; porous orbital implant; reconstruction; Glucose; in vitro anticataract; lens; Moringa oliefera; ′BARC I-125 Ocu-Prosta seeds′; choroidal melanoma; ciliary body melanoma; Episcleral plaque brachytherapy; retinal angioma; retinoblastoma; vasoproliferative tumor; Congenital glaucoma; gonioscopy; Retcam; Acoustic features; A-scan; B-scan; choroidal mass; ultrasound biomicroscopy; Cataract surgery; education; informed consent; multimedia; rural health; Lagophthalmos; silicone sling; temporalis muscle; Contrast sensitivity function; disability; function peak; multiple sclerosis; spatial frequency; Congenital cataract; developmental cataract; outcome; vision function
• Online Access: http://www.ijo.in/article.asp?issn=0301-4738;year=2014;volume=62;issue=2;spage=186;epage=195;aulast=Gogate

Aim : To study long term outcome of bilateral congenital and developmental cataract surgery. Subjects: 258 pediatric cataract operated eyes of 129 children. Materials and Methods: Children who underwent pediatric cataract surgery in 2004-8 were traced and examined prospectively in 2010-11. Demographic and clinical factors were noted from retrospective chart readings. All children underwent visual acuity estimation and comprehensive ocular examination in a standardized manner. L. V. Prasad Child Vision Function scores (LVP-CVF) were noted for before and after surgery. Statistics: Statistical analysis was done with SPSS version 16 including multi-variate analysis. Results: Children aged 9.1 years (std dev 4.6, range 7 weeks-15 years) at the time of surgery. 74/129 (57.4%) were boys. The average duration of follow-up was 4.4 years (stddev 1.6, range 3-8 years). 177 (68.6%) eyes had vision <3/60 before surgery, while 109 (42.2%) had best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) >6/18 and 157 (60.9%) had BCVA >6/60 3-8 years after surgery. 48 (37.2%) had binocular stereoacuity <480 sec of arc by TNO test. Visual outcome depended on type of cataract (P = 0.004), type of cataract surgery (P < 0.001), type of intra-ocular lens (P = 0.05), age at surgery (P = 0.004), absence of post-operative uveitis (P = 0.01) and pre-operative vision (P < 0.001), but did not depend on delay (0.612) between diagnosis and surgery. There was a statistically significant improvement for all the 20 questions of the LVP-CVF scale (P < 0.001). Conclusion : Pediatric cataract surgery improved the children′s visual acuity, stereo acuity and vision function. Developmental cataract, use of phacoemulsification, older children and those with better pre-operative vision had betterlong-termoutcomes.