Familial Cataracts: Profile of Patients and Their Families at a Child Eye Care Tertiary Facility in a Developing Country.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to describe the clinical profile, pedigree charting, and management of children with familial cataracts at a child eye health tertiary facility in southwest Nigeria.

Methods: The clinical records of children ≤16 years diagnosed with familial cataracts at the Pediatric Ophthalmology Clinic, University College Hospital Ibadan (Ibadan, Nigeria) from January 1, 2015, to December 31, 2019, were retrospectively reviewed. Information on demographic data, family history, visual acuity, mean refractive error (spherical equivalent), and surgical management was retrieved.

Outcome of surgery for traumatic cataract in children in a child eye health tertiary facility, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Objective: The objective of this study was to describe the outcome of surgery for traumatic cataract and associated factors in children aged 16 years and below operated in a tertiary facility.

Methods: This was a retrospective review of records of children who had surgery for traumatic cataract between August 2015 and August 2019. Information on biodata, preoperative visual acuity, surgical methods, complications, and postoperative visual acuity were retrieved.

Congenital aniridia: clinical profile of children seen at the University College Hospital, Ibadan, South-West Nigeria.

Purpose: To describe the clinical features of patients younger than 16 years with aniridia presenting to the Paediatric Ophthalmology unit of the Eye Clinic, University College Hospital, Ibadan, Nigeria.

Methods: The is a retrospective review of children with aniridia seen between May 2015 and April 2019 at the Paediatric Ophthalmology unit of the Eye Clinic, University College Hospital in Ibadan. Data on demographic characteristics, presenting complaints, ocular and systemic examination findings, and interventions were collected and descriptively summarised.

Indications for surgery amongst new patients presenting to the paediatric ophthalmology unit of the University College Hospital, Ibadan.

Objective: The objective of the study was to determine the proportion of children requiring ocular surgery amongst new patients presenting to the Paediatric Ophthalmology Unit of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a 2-year period, to enhance planning and improve the efficiency of service delivery.

Methods: The study was a retrospective review of records of all new patients aged 0-16 years who presented to the Paediatric Ophthalmology Unit of the University College Hospital, Ibadan, over a 2-year period (May 2015-April 2017). Information on age and gender, clinical diagnosis and indications for surgery and type of surgery scheduled were retrieved from the diagnosis register of the unit, and a descriptive analysis was performed.

Age at detection and age at presentation of childhood cataract at a tertiary facility in Ibadan, Southwest Nigeria.

Background: To describe factors which influence the age at detection and age at presentation of patients with childhood cataract at a tertiary eye care facility in Southwest Nigeria.

Methods: A retrospective review of children who presented with cataract between 2011 and 2015. Case notes were reviewed and data on age at detection and presentation as well as other clinical information was collected and analyzed using Stata 12 statistical software.

Duane retraction syndrome in a Nigerian child.

We report a case of a four year old Nigerian girl who presented to the paediatric unit of our eye clinic with complaints of a squint on looking to the right side and reduction in the size of the right eye when looking to the left. On examination, she had right exotropia in the primary position of gaze. There was limitation of abduction and widening of the palpebral fissure of the right eye on right gaze.