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. 2001 Sep;85(9):1120–1126. doi: 10.1136/bjo.85.9.1120

Should we aggressively treat unilateral congenital cataracts?

D Taylor 1, K Wright 1, L Amaya 1, L Cassidy 1, K Nischal 1, I Russell-Eggitt 1
PMCID: PMC1724132  PMID: 11520768

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This is my patient who had a dense congenital cataract, left eye, identifited at 1 day of age and had urgent surgery 48 hours after birth. The patient was treated aggressively with bilateral light occlusion from day 1 when the cataract was identified, until a contact lens was fitted at 1 week of age. The patient wears a contact lens full time, left eye, and the right eye is being patched 4 hours a day. As pictured above, the patient is now 1 year old, has excellent fixation in each eye, straight eyes, and the family is very happy that aggressive treatment was initiated.

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Hypothetical curve for IOL power calculation in infants and children drawn from several sources.26-31 This represents the amount of hypermetropia that is targeted at different ages at surgery based on the biometry in order to achieve emmetropia in adult life.

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