Posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis with anterior vitrectomy vs optic capture buttonholing without anterior vitrectomy in pediatric cataract surgery.

Purpose: To investigate long-term complications after pediatric cataract surgery with implantation of a heparin-coated polymethyl methacrylate intraocular lens (PMMA IOL) and posterior continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis (PCCC) with anterior vitrectomy vs PCCC without anterior vitrectomy with optic capture buttonholing.

Setting: Department of Ophthalmology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany.

Design: Prospective randomized clinical trial.

[Electronically recorded occlusion treatment in amblyopes older than 7 years: acuity gain after more than 4 months of treatment?].

Background: According to the ROTAS study most of the improvement in visual acuity (VA) during amblyopia therapy of children aged 3 to 8 years occurs during the first 6 to 8 weeks . Sattler reported a VA gain in 11-year olds even during the second year of treatment . So far there are no standards concerning the intensity and duration of the treatment of patients older than 7 years of age.

A randomised comparison of bilateral recession versus unilateral recession-resection as surgery for infantile esotropia.

Objective: Infantile esotropia, a common form of strabismus, is treated either by bilateral recession (BR) or by unilateral recession-resection (RR). Differences in degree of alignment achieved by these two procedures have not previously been examined in a randomised controlled trial.

Design: Controlled, randomised multicentre trial.

Predictability of intraocular lens calculation using the Holladay II formula after in-the-bag or optic captured posterior chamber intraocular lens implantation in paediatric cataracts.

Purpose: To assess the predictability of postoperative refraction using the Holladay II-formula in paediatric patients randomized to undergo 2 different surgical procedures.

Methods: Fourty cataractous eyes of 29 patients (age 2.31-11.