Aphakic cystoid macular edema in children
D. V. Poer, E. M. Helveston and F. D. Ellis
Twenty-five eyes of 18 pediatric patients (aged 7 1/2 months to 14 years 8
months) who had had cataract extractions were examined for evidence of
cystoid macular edema (CME) with fluorescein angiography. No patient showed
CME when studied from five weeks to four years after surgery. One patient
with Peter's anomaly, glaucoma, and chronic iridocyclitis had intense
fluorescence of the aqueous and vitreous that precluded evaluation of the
macula. Even if this patient is assumed to have had CME, its incidence in
our population of aphakic pediatric patients was no more than 4%.
