Rehabilitation of the children following extraction of congenital cataracts

The modern microsurgical technologies with the use of viskoprotection and elastic intraocular lenses make possible the surgical treatment of congenital cataracts based on the novel qualitative approaches. However, notwithstanding the great progress in microsurgery, the treatment of congenital cataracts and medical rehabilitation of the children presenting with this condition still remain a serious challenge. An objective of rehabilitative medicine is the organization of the rehabilitation process during the reconvalescenceperiod with the application of the specialized diagnostic and physiotherapeutic methods. The modern concept of medical rehabilitation of the children after extraction of congenital cataract has been formulated based on the summation of the experience accumulated at the Department of Pathology of the Helmholtz Moscow Research Institute of Eye Diseases.

trehabilitation, congenital cataract, artiphakia, aphakia