title: Surgical correction of lens dislocation in children.
abstract: We treated nontraumatic ectopia lentis with the irrigation and aspiration method in 30 children and the Keeler/SITE instrument in three. Preoperative visual acuities were 6/21 (20/70) or worse in all patients; postoperatively, visual acuities improved in 29 of the 30 eyes and were 6/18 (20/60) or better in 24 (80%). Amblyopia was the major preoperative and postoperative complication. Results were also good in the three eyes in which we used the Keeler/SITE instrument. The prognosis for postoperative visual acuity in nontraumatic cases of ectopia lentis is good when either the irrigation and aspiration method or the Keeler/SITE instrument is used.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004479:Ectopia Lentis / Q000601:surgery; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007906:Lens Subluxation / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D008722:Methods; D014792:Visual Acuity