General Anesthesia in Pediatric Lens Surgery
Fasting Age Solid food, milk (hour) Liquids (hour) Under 6 months 4 3 6–36 months 6 4 >36 months 8 4 2. Premedication The main purpose of premedication…
Selection of Intraocular Lenses for Children
Fig. 14.1 IOLs are classified by haptic design. (a) Single-piece IOL; (b) three-piece IOL; (c) novel single-piece IOL made of two materials using a novel polymerization technology 14.1.3 IOL Implantation…
Perioperative Challenges and Solutions in the Management of Children with Cataracts
What causes the cataract of my child? What is its incidence? Is surgery really needed? How about the postoperative visual outcome? When shall we come back for follow-ups? When to…
Pediatric Cataract Surgery in Microphthalmic Eyes
Shallow anterior chamber with short axial length Nanophthalmos/simple microphthalmos Colobomatous microphthalmos Complex microphthalmos Shallow anterior chamber with normal axial length Relative anterior microphthalmos Normal anterior chamber depth with short axial…
Quality of Life Assessment in Children with Lens Anomalies
Here, K is the number of items, s X 2 is the variance of total scores, and s Yi2 is the variance of item i for the current sample of…
Anatomy and Physiology of the Crystalline Lens
Periods Age Growth rate (mg/year) Fetus 13–39 gestational weeks 181 Newborn 0–11 months 24 Infancy to adolescence 1–10 years 2.8 Adolescence to old age 10–90 years 1.43 Reproduced with permission…
Calculation and Selection of Intraocular Lens Power for Children
Fig. 13.1 Measurement of eye axial length. (a) Measurement of axial length with contact A-mode ultrasound; (b) measurement of axial length with IOL Master; (c) measurement of axial length with…
Embryonic Development of the Human Lens
Fig. 1.1 Schematic diagrams of embryonic development of the lens. (a) The optic vesicle forms in the third week of gestation and begins to gradually make contact with the surface…
Human Visual Development
Fig. 2.1 Visual pathway. The visual pathway comprises the retina, optic nerve, optic chiasm, optic tract, lateral geniculate nucleus, optic radiation, and neurons in visual cortex 2.1.2 Prenatal Visual Development…
Nutrition for Children with Cancer in Africa
and Mhamed Harif2 (1) South African Medical Research Council, Cape Town, South Africa (2) Université Mohammed VI des Sciences de la Santé Cheikh Khalifa Hospital, Casablanca, Morocco KeywordsMalnutritionWeight lossNutritional statusAnthropometryWHO…
