PURPOSE To evaluate safety and efficacy of day care cataract surgery in developing country. PATIENTS AND METHODS This prospective study included 200 patients planned for cataract surgery during October and November 2012 divided in to two groups, day care cataract surgery (DCCS) and inpatient cataract surgery (ICS), with same number of male and female patients right and left eyes. All patients...

Reading rates are slower for persons with low vision than for normally-sighted persons. This study investigated the change in reading performance and reading eye movements when we simulated the two most common causes of low vision--central field loss and cataract--and their combination (scotoma + cataract). Three subjects read sentences with each of these simulated impairments at five different...

BACKGROUND Dietary antioxidants, including carotenoids, are hypothesized to decrease the risk of age-related cataracts by preventing oxidation of proteins or lipids within the lens. However, prospective epidemiologic data concerning this phenomenon are limited. OBJECTIVE Our objective was to examine prospectively the association between carotenoid and vitamin A intakes and cataract extraction...

TiiEsii notes on choroidal haemorrhage are based on 30 cases occurring throughout a series of 2,777 cases of cataract extraction done by Dr. Holland of Ouetta, and his staff, during two seasons at Shikarpur, Sind, where the incidence of glaucoma is very high. Tonometry and Choroidal Hemorrhage.?Perhaps the most striking fact noted with regard to the complications following cataract extraction, ...

CONTEXT The use of systemic corticosteroids is a known risk factor for the development of cataracts. OBJECTIVE To determine whether treatment with inhaled corticosteroids is associated with cataract extraction in the elderly. DESIGN Case-control study. SETTING Quebec universal health insurance program for all elderly (provincial health insurance plan database [RAMQ database]). PATIENTS ...

This occupies only the introductory chapter, 17 pages of the book; the rest of the book, about 100 pages, describes in a detailed way the cataract operation done by him, the instruments employed and their sterilisation, the preparation of the patient, the actual steps of the operation, and in this, the all-important question of the section and how to make it are well dealt with. The author advo...

Although endophthalmitis following cataract extraction is a rare complication (only 0.17% in the study by Norregaard et al presented in this issue of the BJO (p 102)), endophthalmitis is important because frequently it has a significant eVect on visual function. Outcomes of cataract surgery, including endophthalmitis, have been the subject of intense investigation in recent years, in part becau...

In spite of treatment no improvement in vision occurred. On May 16 the left pupil was inactive to light and by June 28 the fundus examination showed a secondary type of optic atrophy with some narrowing of the vessels. 'I'he right eye was normal throughout and, when seen in November 1935, was quite healthy, with 6/6 vision after correction. We infer that the massive lesion of the optic nerve wa...

BEFORE the introduction of enzymatic zonulysis by Joaquin Barraquer (1958), the normal procedure of senile lens extraction was either by intraor extra-capsular extraction, or, more recently, by the use of the erisophake. This latter operation can be done with much greater facility by the use of the enzyme, as has been demonstrated by Barraquer (1958), Cogan (1958), and Cogan, Symons, and Gibbs ...

operations. The cause in most cases is an infection which occurs at the time of operation; but it may sometimes be derived from the surface of the wound and is occasionally endogenous. Its onset is favoured by any condition which debilitates the patient, such as diabetes, pyorrhoea, and gastro-intestinal disturbances, and by the presence of lens matter in the anterior chamber."(l) This subject ...