The role of HBV-infection in development of cataracts in children and adults.

Possible role of intrauterine HBV infection in the formation of congenital non-hereditary cataracts is testified by discoveries of HBV markers in lens masses, aqueous humor of the anterior chamber and blood serum of the operated children and in blood of mother. We consider the patients with chronic diffuse liver diseases of HBV etiology to be a risk group of post capsular cataracts' formation. The development of these cataracts is associated with the progress of the basic liver disease.