[Metabolic cataract among the children from the Children's Health Center]

The investigations concerned 385 children with a congenital cataract. It was not possible to establish the causes of the condition in 46.5 p.c. of examined children. The set of examinations which was used was sufficient for an explicit determination of the cause of the metabolic part of congenital cataracts. In galactosaemia opacification of the lens appeared in 64 p.c. of cases, in hypofunction of the parathyroids in 17.8 p.c., in hypoglycaemia in 6.6 p.c., in Lowe's syndrome in 100 p.c. of cases.