Pediatric traumatic cataract is one of the leading causes of monocular blindness in children, accounting for 29%-57% of pediatric cataract cases. Pediatric eye is in development, and trauma will lead to more severe complications, such as vitreous proliferation diseases. Without effective and prompt treatments, pediatric cataract will deteriorate vision, including of loss of binocular vision, amblyopia, strabismus, low vision in life, even blind.
In certain regions with well-established childhood blindness programs, the average Childhood Cataract Surgical Rate (CCSR) ranges from 29.2 to 39.8 children per million population, whereas in other poorly established regions, the CCSR is only 1. Trauma remains one of the most important causes of childhood cataract in India. Intraocular lens (IOL) implantation has been accepted as the popular method of correcting aphakia in children because of…
