Jennifer Rossen, MD, a pediatric ophthalmologist at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago, recently received a ...

Adults aren't the only ones who get cataracts. They can develop in children, too. Three out of 10,000 children have a cataract, according to the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pediatric cataracts may be unilateral or bilateral, congenital or acquired, and represent about 5% to 20% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cataract surgery is a complex procedure in children, with all aspects of the surgical process requiring care and ...

This story is part of a series on the current progression in Regenerative Medicine. This piece is part of a series dedicated to the eye and improvements in restoring vision. In 1999, I defined ...

Rick factors of pediatric cataract: “The prevalence of pediatric cataract is more in low-income groups; however, there is no gender bar. Most of the patients have a strong prenatal and birth history.

One of the major causes of childhood blindness is pediatric cataract which is found to affect 15 children of the 10,000 live births in India. Pediatric cataract is a huge burden as it is estimated ...

The purpose of this study was to establish benchmarks for outcome indicators that may help ascertain the quality of pediatric cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. A ...

Cataracts are like death and (yup) taxes: Inevitable. At some point—usually as you enter middle age—most people develop this eye condition, which is a clouding of the eye’s lens that can get ...

Pediatric cataract is an important preventable blinding disease. Previous studies have estimated 10–25% of cases to be genetic in etiology. To address this important gap in our knowledge of genetic ...