Refractive laser surgery in children with coexisting medical and ocular pathology

Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
William F AstleApril Ingram

Abstract

To report the visual, refractive, and functional outcomes of photorefractive keratectomy (PRK) and of laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy in a group of children with significant refractive error and underlying medical conditions or ocular pathology who were noncompliant with traditional management. Nonhospital surgical facility and a hospital clinic. This case series comprised 5 individual cases of anisometropic amblyopia and/or high myopia. Underlying medical and ocular conditions were as follows: upper eyelid hemangioma with oblique myopic astigmatism, Pelizaeus-Merzbacher leukodystrophy with nystagmus, Klippel-Trenaunay-Weber syndrome with glaucoma, incontinentia pigmenti with unilateral optic nerve atrophy, and Goldenhar syndrome with unilateral optic nerve hypoplasia. Photorefractive keratectomy or LASEK was performed in 6 eyes of 5 patients. Age range at the time of surgery was 1.0 to 7.0 years. All procedures were performed under general anesthesia. Best corrected visual acuity improved by 2 lines in 2 patients and 1 line in 2 patients by 6 months after surgery. Stereopsis and/or fusional status improved in 3 patients. Amblyopia treatment compliance improved in 1 patient. Alignment improved without strabismus surger...Continue Reading

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