MONTEREY, Calif. — A study conducted at the Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City examined the outcomes of surgical intervention in infants with delayed-presentation unilateral juvenile cataract beyond the recommended period of 6 weeks.
The study, presented by Akhila Alapati, MD, and co-authors in a poster at the Women in Ophthalmology 2022 Summer Symposium, was a review of charts of children with visually significant juvenile cataract who had no surgery or underwent surgical intervention after 6 weeks of age.
Of the 14 children who underwent surgery, one was left aphakic and the