A 1-week-old girl was referred by her pediatrician for evaluation of bilateral decreased red reflex, thought to be due to bilateral congenital cataracts. The child was born full-term after an ...

Adults aren't the only ones who get cataracts. They can develop in children, too. Three out of 10,000 children have a cataract, according to the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and ...

An abnormal red reflex finding most likely reflects an underlying ocular pathology in infants, but finding a normal red reflex during screening does not altogether exclude ocular disease. The American ...

A 31-week-old premature baby boy with bilateral congenital cataracts recently regained his vision after a complex-high risk surgery. The infant’s low birth weight of 1.05 kg increased the complexity ...

A Philadelphia jury has rendered a defense verdict for a pediatrician over claims that he failed to diagnose an infant's cataracts. After six days of trial in Ross v. Pennsylvania Hospital, the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A careful slit lamp microscope examination of the eye during the preoperative consultation can pick up most ...