A randomized clinical trial comparing contact lens with intraocular lens correction of monocular aphakia during infancy: grating acuity and adverse events at age 1 year.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To compare the visual outcomes and adverse events of contact lens with primary intraocular lens (IOL) correction of monocular aphakia during infancy.

Methods

In a randomized, multicenter (12 sites) clinical trial, 114 infants with a unilateral congenital cataract were assigned to undergo cataract surgery between 1 to 6 months of age either with or without primary IOL implantation. Contact lenses were used to correct aphakia in patients who did not receive IOLs. Grating visual acuity was tested at 1 year of age by a masked traveling examiner.

Main outcome measure

Grating visual acuity at 1 year of age.

Results

The median logMAR visual acuity was not significantly different between the treated eyes in the 2 groups (contact lens group, 0.80; IOL group, 0

SUBMITTER: Infant Aphakia Treatment Study Group 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3512571 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature