A Novel Congenital Cataract Category System

Sun Yat-sen University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Cataract

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02793869

CCPMOH2016-China-4

Details and patient eligibility

About

Congenital cataracts (CC) are the leading cause of childhood visual disabilities and treatable childhood blindness worldwide1. CC patients have a wide range of presentations of lens opacities and are generally categorized into several groups based on the etiologies, anatomical positions, or shapes of lens opacities. Cataractous eyes of CC patients are also frequently complicated with other anterior segment abnormalities due to their close anatomical relationships and similar developmental origins. Lens opacities in different positions may be related to specific anterior segment abnormalities; for example, anterior polar cataracts are associated with greater corneal astigmatism (CA). However, no studies have systematically related the position of lens opacities to specific anterior segment abnormities, mainly due to the small number of CC patients, a lack of proper equipment, and a lack of awareness of these important relationships.

Full description

Congenital cataracts (CC) are the leading cause of childhood visual disabilities and treatable childhood blindness worldwide1. CC patients have a wide range of presentations of lens opacities and are generally categorized into several groups based on the etiologies, anatomical positions, or shapes of lens opacities. Cataractous eyes of CC patients are also frequently complicated with other anterior segment abnormalities due to their close anatomical relationships and similar developmental origins. Lens opacities in different positions may be related to specific anterior segment abnormalities; for example, anterior polar cataracts are associated with greater corneal astigmatism (CA). However, no studies have systematically related the position of lens opacities to specific anterior segment abnormities, mainly due to the small number of CC patients, a lack of proper equipment, and a lack of awareness of these important relationships.

Using the largest CC database in the Zhongshan Ophthalmic Center (ZOC), the current study compared the anterior segment characteristics of CC patients with lens opacities in different positions and further proposed a modified CC category system based on the specific relationships between the position of lens opacities and anterior segment characteristics. Knowledge of these relationships is beneficial for further understanding of CC occurrence and development and has clinical significance for CC diagnosis and treatment.

Enrollment: 428 patients

Sex: All

Ages: Under 18 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Diagnosis of congenital cataract
• less than 18 years old

Exclusion criteria

• With other ocular abnormalities including severe corneal diseases, lens luxation, glaucoma, retinal diseases, nystagmus, nanophthalmos, and strabismus.

Trial design

428 participants in 4 patient groups

Total cataract group

Description:

All selected eyes were categorized into four groups: total cataracts, anterior cataracts, interior cataracts and posterior cataracts, based on the position of lens opacities shown by both a slit lamp (BX900, HAAG-STREIT AG, Bern, Switzerland) examination and a 3-dimensional anterior segment imaging and analysis system (Pentacam HR, Oculus Inc., Wetzlar, Germany) after mydriasis.

Anterior cataract group

Description:

All selected eyes were categorized into four groups: total cataracts, anterior cataracts, interior cataracts and posterior cataracts, based on the position of lens opacities shown by both a slit lamp (BX900, HAAG-STREIT AG, Bern, Switzerland) examination and a 3-dimensional anterior segment imaging and analysis system (Pentacam HR, Oculus Inc., Wetzlar, Germany) after mydriasis.

Interior cataracts group

Description:

All selected eyes were categorized into four groups: total cataracts, anterior cataracts, interior cataracts and posterior cataracts, based on the position of lens opacities shown by both a slit lamp (BX900, HAAG-STREIT AG, Bern, Switzerland) examination and a 3-dimensional anterior segment imaging and analysis system (Pentacam HR, Oculus Inc., Wetzlar, Germany) after mydriasis.

Posterior cataract group

Description:

All selected eyes were categorized into four groups: total cataracts, anterior cataracts, interior cataracts and posterior cataracts, based on the position of lens opacities shown by both a slit lamp (BX900, HAAG-STREIT AG, Bern, Switzerland) examination and a 3-dimensional anterior segment imaging and analysis system (Pentacam HR, Oculus Inc., Wetzlar, Germany) after mydriasis.