I. Christopher Lloyd , M. Edward Wilson , Rupal H. Trivedi , Susmito Biswas , Jane L. Ashworth , Elspeth Green , Jay Self , Kelly Voltz , Cyril Archambault , Thaddeus S. McClatchey , Scott K. McClatchey , Joanne Randeree , Jessica Gowing , Sophie Cowen , Lucy Barker , Ramesh Kekunnaya , Scott R. Lambert
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Abstract
Cataracts in infants and children are comparatively rare, but they remain an important cause of potentially lifelong visual impairment, largely because of associated deprivation amblyopia. This is particularly seen in children missed by screening programs and thus presenting late for treatment. However, advances in diagnosis, surgical techniques and amblyopia management have improved the prognosis for most children seen with this condition. This comprehensive review focuses on all aspects of the care required to optimize outcomes. It covers modern genetic investigations, performed to precisely determine underlying cataract etiology, and discusses the use of outcome-based evidence to guide the timing of surgical intervention. The paper also outlines the options available to clinicians for post-operative refractive error correction and compares indications, risks and benefits for the use of contact lenses, spectacles and intraocular lenses (IOL). The challenge of choosing the most appropriate dioptric power of IOL to implant into a growing eye is discussed, as is consideration of types of IOLs that can be considered and the surgical techniques needed. Evidence-based approaches to the clinical management of amblyopia, glaucoma and visual axis opacification, the three most common complications seen following pediatric cataract surgery, are reviewed. Two specific conditions associated with pediatric cataract are discussed in detail--persistent fetal vasculature and ocular trauma. Strategies for assessment, management and surgical treatment of these conditions are reviewed.
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The Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology, a bimonthly, peer-reviewed online scientific publication, is an official publication of the Asia-Pacific Academy of Ophthalmology (APAO), a supranational organization which is committed to research, training, learning, publication and knowledge and skill transfers in ophthalmology and visual sciences. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology welcomes review articles on currently hot topics, original, previously unpublished manuscripts describing clinical investigations, clinical observations and clinically relevant laboratory investigations, as well as .perspectives containing personal viewpoints on topics with broad interests. Editorials are published by invitation only. Case reports are generally not considered. The Asia-Pacific Journal of Ophthalmology covers 16 subspecialties and is freely circulated among individual members of the APAO’s member societies, which amounts to a potential readership of over 50,000.