Biometry characteristics in congenital cataract patients before surgery in a tertiary eye care centre in Nepal.

Purpose: To evaluate the anterior segment biometry characteristics in congenital cataract patients before undergoing surgery in a tertiary eye care centre.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed the charts of congenital cataract patients aged less than 15 years who had undergone the congenital cataract surgery from Jan-Dec, 2015. 451 eyes of 351 patients were reviewed.

Childhood corneal blindness: a retrospective study in a tertiary eye hospital of eastern region of Nepal.

Introduction: Studies from Nepal show that most of the cases of unilateral childhood blindness are due to corneal causes. It was also observed that these corneal causes were mostly preventable or treatable.

Objective: to study the patterns of corneal diseases in a pediatric out-patient department of a hospital in the eastern region of Nepal.