Baseline characteristics of the infant aphakia treatment study population: predicting recognition acuity at 4.5 years of age.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To identify patient baseline characteristics that predict recognition acuity at 4.5 years of age in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study, a study of patients with monocular infantile cataracts.

Methods

We analyzed baseline characteristics of the 114 infants enrolled in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study to determine which were most predictive of visual outcome at 4.5 years of age. All infants underwent cataract surgery between 1 and 7 months of age. Monocular acuity was assessed at 4.5 years of age by a traveling examiner using the Amblyopia Treatment Study HOTV protocol.

Results

Age at cataract surgery was weakly associated with visual acuity (Spearman rank correlation coefficient = 0.19, P = 0.041) with median visual acuity better among the younger patients (2

SUBMITTER: Hartmann EE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4296771 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature