title: Long-Term Follow-Up after Surgery for Congenital and Developmental Cataracts.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate long-term functional outcomes after surgery for congenital and developmental cataracts.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this retrospective interventional study, patients with congenital and developmental cataracts observed from 1996 to 2013 were included. Traumatic cataracts and cataracts secondary to other pathologies were excluded from the study. Minimum follow-up for inclusion was five years.
  
  
  RESULTS
  We included 117 patients operated on for congenital cataracts (58 females and 59 males, mean age 0.59 ± 0.2 years, 160 eyes) and 73 patients operated on for developmental cataracts (32 females and 41 males, mean age 6.63 ± 0.7 years, 121 eyes). Mean postsurgical follow-up was 9.26 ± 1.3 years (range, 5-14 years). After surgery for developmental cataracts, both distance and near BCVA were greater (p = 0.001), as was the presence of binocular vision (p = 0.001), while incidence of strabismus and myopic shift was lower (p = 0.001 and p = 0.02, respectively).
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Postsurgical data showed better functional outcomes in developmental cataracts when compared to congenital cataracts.
authors.affiliation: a Pediatric Eye Department , University of Salerno , Fisciano , Italy .|b GI.MA Eye Center , Naples , Italy , and.
authors.forename: Adriano
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Magli
authors.affiliation: a Pediatric Eye Department , University of Salerno , Fisciano , Italy .|c Eye Department , University Federico II , Naples , Italy.
authors.forename: Raimondo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Forte
authors.affiliation: a Pediatric Eye Department , University of Salerno , Fisciano , Italy .
authors.forename: Roberta
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Carelli
authors.affiliation: b GI.MA Eye Center , Naples , Italy , and.
authors.forename: Giulia
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Magli
authors.affiliation: b GI.MA Eye Center , Naples , Italy , and.
authors.forename: Francesca
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Esposito
authors.affiliation: b GI.MA Eye Center , Naples , Italy , and.
authors.forename: Angelo
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Torre
mesh_terms: D001036:Aphakia, Postcataract / Q000503:physiopathology; D002386:Cataract / Q000151:congenital*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D009216:Myopia / Q000503:physiopathology; D019591:Pseudophakia / Q000503:physiopathology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013285:Strabismus / Q000503:physiopathology; D015348:Vision, Binocular / Q000502:physiology; D014792:Visual Acuity / Q000502:physiology
keywords: Binocular vision; intraocular lens; myopic shift; strabismus; visual acuity