Amblyopia after unilateral infantile cataract extraction after six weeks of age.

Purpose: To determine interocular grating acuity difference in children treated for unilateral infantile cataract.

Methods: A group of 27 children previously treated for unilateral infantile cataract, had their monocular visual acuity measured by sweep visual evoked potentials. Interocular grating acuity difference was calculated as the absolute subtraction of monocular acuity scores.

Mutation analysis of CRYAA, CRYGC, and CRYGD associated with autosomal dominant congenital cataract in Brazilian families.

Purpose: Congenital cataracts are one of the most treatable causes of visual impairment and blindness during infancy. Approximately 50% of all congenital cataract cases may have a genetic cause. Once there is an intimate relationship between crystallin genes and lens transparency, they are excellent candidate genes for inherited cataract.

[Variation of visual acuity in young patients with ectopia lentis submitted to surgery].

Purpose: To assess the results as to visual acuity of two different surgical procedures for ectopia lentis.

Methods: Fifty-one eyes of 28 patients (16 males and 12 females, mean age 16.00 +/- 8.

[Anophthalmia and congenital cataract: case report].

The authors report a case of anophthalmia, congenital cataract and systemic malformations. Male patient, 6 months old, left anophthalmia and congenital posterior polar cataract in the right eye. The patient was treated with manual aspiration of the crystalline lens, with no intraocular lens implantation with primary posterior capsulorhexis and anterior vitrectomy through a small incision.