A Baby Girl Born with Bilateral Congenital Cataract to A Mother with Unilateral Congenital Cataract Treated in Childhood

Abstract

We hereby disseminate a case of a baby girl, who at ten months of age received MMR vaccine but was discovered to later have unilateral congenital cataract at eight years of age. At 25 years, she was married giving birth to a baby boy who had normal vision. Unfortunately, the second baby girl was detected to have bilateral cataract for which the baby at four months of age underwent lens aspiration and anterior vitrectomy of both eyes at a gap of one week. A month later a glass with bilateral +21 Diopters were prescribed. She is planned for intraocular lens implant at around four years of age. She is on currently on visual rehabilitation and treatment for amblyopia Learning lesson from this case being the fact that congenital cataract may run in family and may impart vision deprivation in the offspring; therefore, the importance of preconception counseling is important.