Pediatric Traumatic Cataracts at a Tertiary Eye Center in Indonesia

• 作者: Desi Mariska Feti Karfiati Memed Irawati Irfani Maya Sari Wahyu Primawita Oktarima Sesy Caesarya
• 来源期刊: 眼科学期刊(英文)
• 学科: 医学
• 关键词: Traumatic Cataract PEDIATRIC Visual Outcome
• 年，卷（期）: 2020,（4）
• 页码范围: 332-340
• 页数: 9页
• 分类号: R65

摘要

<b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Background:</span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> Traumatic cataract is the leading cause of significant monocular </span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">visual impairment in children. The cause of this type of cataract is preventable penetrating or blunt ocular injury. Lens extraction can improve the visual </span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">acuity but it also depends on the extent of the injury to other ocular struc</span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ture</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">s</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objective: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">To describe the features of pediatric traumatic cataract presenting at a tertiary eye center in Indonesia. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods:</span></b><i> </i><span style="font-family:Verdana;">This study is a descriptive study and the data w</span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;">ere</span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> collected retrospectively from the medical records of the patients who were diagnosed as pediatric traumatic cataract over the period of January 1</span>^{<span style="font-family:Verdana;">st</span>}<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> 2019 to December 31</span>^{<span style="font-family:Verdana;">st</span>}<span style="font-family:Verdana;"> 2019. Demographic data, trauma characteristics, clinical features, management, and pre- and post-operative Best Corrected Visual Acuity (BCVA) were reviewed retrospectively. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">A total of 37 patients were diagnosed as pediatric traumatic cataract. Among these patients, 78.38% were boys, with the mean age of 9.14 </span></span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">±</span><span style="font-family:Verda