Retinal detachment may occur more frequently and earlier in pediatric patients after cataract surgery than previously reported, according to a study at the virtual American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus meeting.
Retinal detachment (RD) in children immediately after surgery has not been well examined.
Angeline M. Nguyen, MD, of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and University of Southern California, and colleagues undertook a retrospective review of nearly 58 million charts in the Optum data set, identifying 731 patients younger than 13 years of age who had cataract