Rate of axial growth after congenital cataract urgery

Purpoe To evaluate the rate of axial growth after congenital cataract urgery. Deign Propective obervational cae erie. Method Rate of axial growth of 158 eye (79 children < 10 year) undergoing urgery wa correlated with age at urgery, laterality, and viual axi obcuration. After meauring axial length (AL) at each follow-up, the mean AL wa calculated, adding the AL of all eye divided by their total number. Rate of axial growth i the percentage difference between preoperative mean AL and mean AL at lat follow up. The temporal profile of RAG i the difference between two conecutive mean AL with repect to the previou reading. The follow-up period wa 58.96 ± 2.02 month. The tudent’ paired t tet and independent ample t tet were applied. The main outcome meaure wa RAG. Reult Rate of axial growth in children operated at ≤ 1 year (23.5%) wa ignificantly higher than in thoe at ≤ 3 year (4.8%; P = .0001, confidence interval [CI] 1.05–3.2) and at ≤ 10 year (4.3%; P = .0001, CI 1.3–3.1). In children operated at ≤ 1 year, temporal profile of RAG wa higher in the firt 2 year after urgery. Rate of axial growth wa higher in patient with unilateral peudophakia at ≤ 1 year (25.53%) than in age-matched patient with bilateral peudophakia (18.50%; P = .001, CI −13 to −0.2). Rate of axial growth wa negligible in children with viual axi obcuration in any group. Concluion Rate of axial growth i higher in children ≤ 1 year and increae until the econd year after urgery. Unilateral peudophakia revealed accelerated growth compared with bilateral peudophakia. Viual axi obcuration doe not influence rate of axial growth.