Evaluation of a Public Child Eye Health Tertiary Facility for Pediatric Cataract in Southern Nigeria I: Visual Acuity Outcome
| Autor: | Okon A. Eyo, Roseline Duke, Friday Odey, S. K. Oparah, AO Adio |
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| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity genetic structures medicine.medical_treatment Vitrectomy Clinical benefit Article 03 medical and health sciences Congenital 0302 clinical medicine Cataracts Ophthalmology medicine Developmental Outcome business.industry Postoperative complication Retrospective cohort study Bilateral cataracts Cataract surgery medicine.disease eye diseases Bilateral Cataracts 030221 ophthalmology & optometry sense organs medicine.symptom Presentation (obstetrics) Southern Nigeria business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | The Open Ophthalmology Journal |
| ISSN: | 1874-3641 |
| Popis: | Purpose: A retrospective study of the outcome of congenital and developmental cataract surgery was conducted in a public child eye health tertiary facility in children Materials and Method: Manual Small Incision Cataract Surgery with or without anterior vitrectomy was performed. The outcome measures were visual acuity (VA) and change (gain) in visual acuity. The age of the child at onset, duration of delay in presentation, ocular co-morbidity, non ocular co-morbidity, gender, and pre operative visual acuity were matched with postoperative visual acuity. A total of 66 children were studied for a period of six weeks following surgery. Results: Forty eight (72.7%) children had bilateral congenital cataracts and 18 (27.3%) children had bilateral developmental cataracts. There were 38(57.6%) males and 28 (42.4%) females in the study. Thirty Five (53%) children had good visual outcome (normal vision range 6/6/ -6/18) post-operatively. The number of children with blindness (vision Conclusion: Predictors of change in visual acuity in our study were; delayed presentation and pre-operative VA. Cataract surgery in children showed clinical benefit. |
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