Medically reviewed by Bryan M. Wolynski, OD Key Takeaways Congenital cataracts can cause blurry vision or blindness in children.Cataracts in babies should be removed early, often in the first weeks of ...

Surgically implanting lenses in the eyes of infants born with cataracts might increase the rate of surgical complications, said a Baylor College of Medicine eye specialist who took part in a study ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . An anxious young mother brings her newborn daughter to you for an evaluation. At birth, the pediatrician noted a ...

University of Southampton provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. In the new Netflix series All the Light We Cannot See, a blind French girl called Marie-Laure LeBlanc makes illicit radio ...

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 ...

Madison Artale’s world was darkening before it even began. Diagnosed with congenital cataracts at less than two months old, the baby — born in Bellevue, Nebraska, on Oct. 1 — was in danger of losing ...

Monocular congenital cataracts have been treated for the past two decades with early surgery, contact lens correction and patching of the unaffected eye. While an occasional patient has had a good ...

Chinese researchers have harnessed the power of deep learning to help doctors identify this rare disease. Kiankhoon / iStock In America, congenital cataracts—a clouding of the eye lens at birth that ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Cataracts (opacities of the lens) are frequent in the elderly, but rare in paediatric practice. Congenital cataracts (in industrialized ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Since the first 3M diffractive implants in 1989, I have used them in more than 2,100 children, and I always ...

Brandee Artale's close attention to her daughter's eyes caught a rare condition. Brandee Artale was breastfeeding her newborn daughter late last year when, she said, she noticed something different in ...

The case of a 5-year-old Cambodian boy with severe cataracts, reducing his vision to only 1/10, has just been successfully ...