Infant Aphakia Treatment Study: effects of persistent fetal vasculature on outcome at 1 year of age.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The Infant Aphakia Treatment Study is a randomized trial that compares the treatment of unilateral congenital cataract with primary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation versus aphakic contact lens (CLs). The purpose of this study was to compare the outcomes for infants with lens opacity associated with persistent fetal vasculature (PFV) to those without.

Methods

Retrospective subgroup analysis of grating visual acuity at 1 year of age and adverse events up to 1 year after surgery in eyes identified intraoperatively as having evidence of mild PFV from the IATS.

Results

Of 83 infants, 18 (22%: 11 CL, 7 IOL) had PFV. Median logMAR visual acuity was 0.88 for patients with PFV and 0.80 for patients without PFV (P = 0.46). One or more adverse events up to 1 year a

SUBMITTER: Morrison DG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3223380 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature