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Correspondence: Stacey J. Kruger, Department of Ophthalmology, Northwell Health, 600 Northern Blvd Ste 220, Great Neck, NY 11021, USA. e-mail: skruger1@northwell.edu
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Research Funding:
Supported through a cooperative agreement from the National Institutes of Health (NIH; Bethesda, MD) Grants U10 EY13272, U10 EY013287, UG1 EY013272, 1UG1 EY025553, and in part by NIH Departmental Core Grant P30 EY026877 and Research to Prevent Blindness, Inc., New York, NY.
Keywords:
- Science & Technology
- Life Sciences & Biomedicine
- Ophthalmology
- INTRAOCULAR-LENS
Third-Party Coverage for Aphakic Contact Lenses for Children
Abstract:
We read with the interest the article by Cao et al. reporting spectacle wear adherence in aphakic children after bilateral cataract surgery. In their series, spectacle adherence was only 31% during the first year of life. Poor spectacle adherence during these formative years when central visual pathways are developing puts these children at risk for life-long visual disability. In contrast, contact lens adherence was much higher during the first year of life among participants in the Infant Aphakia Treatment Study (IATS) a multicenter, longitudinal, randomized clinical trial in the United States, which randomized infants after unilateral cataract surgery to primary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation or aphakia.
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