The analysis of distant results of eye axial length in children of first year of life who underwent surgery because of congenital cataract

Poster Details

First Author: A.Egorova RUSSIA

Co Author(s):    G. Smolyakova   V. Egorov           

Abstract Details

Purpose:

to undertake the analysis of anatomo-optical changes of children’s eyes after aspiration of congenital cataract (CC) with IOL implantation performed during first eye of life according to the perspective study. The substantiation of physiological reasonability of lens aspiration and primary IOL implantation at CC in children of first year of life depends upon the objective evaluation of dynamics of anatomic parameters of operated eyes.

Setting:

Khabarovsk branch of the academician S.N. Fyodorov Federal State Institution" Intersectorial Research and Technology Complex " Eye Microsurgery" .

Methods:

We examined 44 children (67 eyes) at the age of 4 years after CC aspiration with primary IOL implantation who made the main group. Children’s age varied from 3 to 11 months (5,1±2,5 months in the average) when they underwent surgery. Ultrasound biometry was done before operation and at the age of 4 years. We studied the similar parameters of vision system of 30 4-year old healthy children (60 eyes) who made the control group.

Results:

Eye’s axial length (EAL) of children’s eyes before operation varied from 17,1 to 18,5 mm (17,6±0,5 in the average) in the main group. The analysis of received data showed the absence of intergroup differences in the speed of eyeball growth in children from main and control group at the time of examination at the age of 4 years (p>0,05). So the EAL in children from the main group varied from 19,4 to 22,8 mm (21,9±1,1 mm in the average), but the same index varied from 19,4 to 22,7 mm (21,7±1,1 mm in the average) in the control group.

Conclusions:

It was determined in the perspective study at the terms of postoperative observation of 3 and more years that removal of congenital cataract with IOL implantation in children of first year of life does not influence the age dynamics of physiological growth of the eyeball. It was determined in the perspective study at the terms of postoperative observation of 3 and more years that removal of congenital cataract with IOL implantation in children of first year of life does not influence the age dynamics of physiological growth of the eyeball. FINANCIAL DISCLOSURE?: No