INTRODUCTION The manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) is the surgery of choice in countries with a huge back-log of cataract blindness. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the outcome of manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) under topical anesthesia with lignocaine 2 % jelly. MATERIALS AND METHODS This study was a prospective interventional case series. One hundred and twenty eight pat...

PURPOSE To use Fourier-domain anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT)) to evaluate the main clear corneal incisions (CCIs) in microcoaxial and biaxial cataract surgery, the effects of incision enlargement, and the probable reasons for problematic healing. SETTING Atatürk Training and Research Hospital, 2nd Ophthalmology Department, Ankara, Turkey. DESIGN Cohort study. METHO...

Cataract surgery due to advances in small incision surgery evolved from a procedure concerned with the primary focus on the safe removal of cataractous lens to a procedure focused on the best possible postoperative refractive result. As the outcomes of cataract surgery became better, the use of lens surgery as a refractive modality in patients without cataracts has increased in interest and in ...

Aims: To evaluate intraocular pressure (IOP) control, visual prognosis and complications following manual small incision cataract surgery among eyes with phacomorphic glaucoma. Material and Methods: This prospective, non-randomized interventional consecutive case series included 10 eyes of 10 patients with phacomorphic glaucoma who presented to Kasr El-Aini Hospital between March 2010 and April...

INTRODUCTION the small-incision cataract surgery is gaining popularity among the ophthalmic surgeons. OBJECTIVE to compare the visual outcome of conventional extra-capsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and small-incision cataract surgery (SICS) in a hospital based community cataract program. MATERIALS AND METHODS aprospective interventional study without randomization was carried out includin...

Introduction Cataract continues to be the cause of almost half the cases of blindness worldwide and the challenge to meet the needs and develop the required resources is as great as ever. Cataract surgery has evolved from couching, first practised several thousand years ago, through intraand extracapsular extraction (ECCE), to phacoemulsification. However, whatever the technique, the most impor...