Baseline characteristics in patients undergoing bilateral cataract surgery before 12 weeks of age (n=15 patients, 30 eyes)
| Age at diagnosis in days | 3 (1 to 45) |
| Age at surgery in days | 35 (15 to 70) |
| Gender, patients (%) | |
| Female | 6 (40%) |
| Male | 9 (60%) |
| Aetiology, patients (%) | |
| Prematurity | 1 (7%) |
| Down syndrome | 3 (20%) |
| Prematurity and Down syndrome | 1 (7%) |
| Lowe syndrome | 1 (7%) |
| Hereditary cataract | 3 (20%) |
| Idiopatic | 6 (40%) |
| Coexisting malformations (cardiac malformation), patients (%) | 4 (27%) |
| Persistent fetal vasculature, eyes (%) | 7 (23%) |
| Pre-existing posterior capsule defect, eyes (%) | 5 (17%) |
| Morphology, eyes (%) | |
| Nuclear | 16 (53%) |
| Lamellar | 2 (7 %) |
| Combined nuclear and lamellar | 6 (20%) |
| Combined other | 2 (7%) |
| Unknown | 4 (13%) |
| AL mm, eyes; n=19 | 17.3 (16.6 to 20.0) |
| K mean (D), eyes; n=21 | 48.4 (43.0 to 54.8) |
| IOL power (D), % of 30 eyes | 24 (7%), 28 (7%), 29 (20%), 29.5 (7%), 30 (60%) |
All data available unless otherwise stated. Summary of observations is presented as median (range, minimum to maximum).
AL, axial length; D, diopters; IOL, intraocular lens; K, keratometry.