Abstract | AIM: METHODS: Data were obtained from the medical records of 29 children (48 eyes) with JIA-associated uveitis operated on for cataract before the age of 16 years from January 1990 up to and including March 2007. Main outcome measures were long-term postsurgical complications and visual acuity in aphakic and pseudophakic eyes of children with JIA-associated uveitis. RESULTS: The number of complications after cataract extraction including new onset of ocular hypertension and secondary glaucoma, cystoid macular oedema and optic disc swelling did not differ between aphakic and pseudophakic eyes. Moreover, no hypotony, perilenticular membranes and phthisis were encountered in the pseudophakic group. Better visual acuity was observed in the pseudophakic eyes up to and including 7 years of follow-up (p=0.012 at 7 years of follow-up). No differences in the preoperative or adjuvant perioperative treatment with periocular or systemic corticosteroids were found between the two groups; however, significantly more children were treated with methotrexate in the pseudophakic group (p=0.006). CONCLUSION:
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Authors | K M Sijssens, L I Los, A Rothova, P A W J F Schellekens, P van de Does, J S Stilma, H J de Boer |
Journal | The British journal of ophthalmology
(Br J Ophthalmol)
Vol. 94
Issue 9
Pg. 1145-9
(Sep 2010)
ISSN: 1468-2079 [Electronic] England |
PMID | 20558424
(Publication Type: Journal Article, Multicenter Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't)
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Topics |
- Aphakia
(complications)
- Arthritis, Juvenile
(complications)
- Cataract Extraction
(adverse effects)
- Child
- Child, Preschool
- Female
- Glaucoma
(etiology)
- Humans
- Infant
- Lens Implantation, Intraocular
(adverse effects)
- Lenses, Intraocular
- Macular Edema
(etiology)
- Male
- Ocular Hypotension
(etiology)
- Papilledema
(etiology)
- Pseudophakia
(complications)
- Retrospective Studies
- Uveitis
(etiology)
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