Intraocular lens implantation in children with cataract.
Intraocular lens implantation in children with cataract.
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10.1016/s2352-4642(19)30150-6
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2019-07
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A. Mataftsi;A. Haidich;N. Ziakas
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A. Mataftsi;A. Haidich;N. Ziakas
In the Article by Ameenat Lola Solebo and colleagues, 1 intraocular lens implantation was not found to be significantly protective against glaucoma for children with bilateral cataract (adjusted odds ratio [OR] 0· 5, 95% CI 0· 10–1· 80, p= 0· 28). Numerically, this effect estimate can be interpreted such that intraocular lens implantation might decrease the odds of glaucoma by 50%. Because of the small number of glaucoma cases in this study, this estimate could not be proven to be significant, but in a meta-analysis2 in which all individual studies could not prove the protective effect of intraocular lens implantation, once synthesized, the pooled effect was able to show its significance (hazard ratio 0· 27, 95% CI 0· 12–0· 61).Surgery on a unilateral cataract could possibly infer a higher glaucoma risk than for a bilateral cataract, given an expected higher percentage of persistent fetal vasculature, sometimes mild or subclinical, in unilateral cataract. 3 And yet, in their cohort study, Solebo and colleagues found none of the 38 children who had a unilateral cataract and underwent implantation developed glaucoma, versus five of 18 children with unilateral cataract who underwent conventional treat ment with aphakic correction with contact lenses or glasses. This result by itself speaks in favour of implanting; however, these numbers are too small to base global recommendations on. In the unilateral group, the authors found that an intensive postoperative regimen of steroids reduced the risk of visual axis opacification, irrespective of intraocular lens implantation. We would be interested to know what their definition of intensive regimen was, and whether these children had a higher incidence of glaucoma