Incidence of retinal detachment after lens surgery in children and young adults with nontraumatic ectopia lentis.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the incidence of retinal detachment after lens surgery in children and young adults with nontraumatic ectopia lentis.

Setting

Population-based claims data.

Design

Population-based retrospective cohort study.

Methods

Patients with nontraumatic ectopia lentis aged 30 years or younger who had undergone lens surgery with or without intraocular lens (IOL) implantation and had 1 year or greater continuous enrollment after lens surgery were included in the Optum deidentified Clinformatics Data Mart Database (2003 to 2019) and IBM MarketScan Databases (2007 to 2016). Both databases were assessed for sex, age, etiology of ectopia lentis, IOL implantation, and postoperative retinal detachment separately. Univariate and multivariate analyses were cond

SUBMITTER: Heo H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8490488 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature