PURPOSE: To validate the predictive value of the Ocular Trauma Score (OTS) in children with traumatic cataract. DESIGN: Retrospective cohort study. SETTING: Tertiary eye care center at nexus of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan states, central Western India. METHODS: After meeting inclusion criteria, eyes with traumatic cataract were enrolled and examined to review comorbidities caused by trauma.
Surgery was performed for traumatic cataract, intraocular lenses were implanted, and patients were treated for amblyopia, as applicable. Patients were reexamined 6 weeks postoperatively. Based on ocular trauma described according to the Birmingham Eye Trauma Terminology System, the patients were divided into 2 traumatic cataract groups: open-globe injury and closed-globe injury. The relationship between final corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) and demographic and clinical variables…
