Visual Impairment and Delay in Presentation for Surgery in Chinese Pediatric Patients with Cataract

Purpose To report visual impairment and blindness and delay in presentation for surgery in Chinese pediatric patients with cataract. Design Retrospective case series. Participants A total of 196 children (309 eyes) with congenital or developmental cataract. Methods Surgery was performed in all patie...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Ophthalmology (Rochester, Minn.) Minn.), 2011, Vol.118 (1), p.17-23
Hauptverfasser:	You, Caiyun, MD, PhD, Wu, Xiaoming, MD, Zhang, Yingying, MD, Dai, Yunhai, MD, Huang, Yusen, MD, PhD, Xie, Lixin, MD
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Age Factors Aphakia, Postcataract - diagnosis Aphakia, Postcataract - physiopathology Asian Continental Ancestry Group - ethnology Blindness - diagnosis Blindness - ethnology Blindness - physiopathology Cataract - diagnosis Cataract - ethnology Cataract - physiopathology Cataract Extraction Child Child, Preschool China - epidemiology Female Follow-Up Studies Humans Infant Male Nystagmus, Pathologic - diagnosis Nystagmus, Pathologic - ethnology Nystagmus, Pathologic - physiopathology Ophthalmology Patient Acceptance of Health Care Pseudophakia - diagnosis Pseudophakia - physiopathology Retinoscopy Retrospective Studies Strabismus - diagnosis Strabismus - ethnology Strabismus - physiopathology Time Factors Visual Acuity - physiology Visually Impaired Persons
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Zusammenfassung:	Purpose To report visual impairment and blindness and delay in presentation for surgery in Chinese pediatric patients with cataract. Design Retrospective case series. Participants A total of 196 children (309 eyes) with congenital or developmental cataract. Methods Surgery was performed in all patients. Visual impairment and blindness were defined as best-corrected visual acuity
ISSN:	0161-6420 1549-4713
DOI:	10.1016/j.ophtha.2010.04.014