Congenital Rubella Cataracts Surgical Results and

Authors: Harold G Scheie David B Schaffer Stanley A Plotkin Elsa D Kertesz

Publish Date: 1967/04/01

Volume: 77, Issue: 4, Pages: 440-444

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Abstract

THIS PAPER presents 1 the results from operating upon 49 eyes with congenital rubella cataracts 2 the outcome of attempts to recover the rubella virus from intraocular specimens from some of these eyes and 3 a suggestion that the poor surgical outlook for congenital rubella cataracts may be partially explained by the persistence of the virus within the eye A total of 19 cultures was taken from 16 different eyes 17 of which were obtained at the time of surgery and two immediately following enucleation The oldest child from whose eyes 17 of which were obtained at the time of ageThe diagnosis of congenital rubella cataract was made clinically in nine patients Table 1 patients 1 through 9 who were born prior to the development of techniques for rubella virus isolation The validity of the diagnosis was determined by the presence of at least two thirds of the classical

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