This study was carried out with the objective of finding refractive status of patients undergoing phacoemulsification surgery for cataract extraction. Success of cataract surgery can be quantified with the improvement in visual acuity with least amount of refractive error. Prospective study of 44 patients was done pre operatively and with subsequent follow up in the first, third and eighth week...

Limbal relaxing incisions are one of the more commonly performed procedures with phacoemulsification to correct preexisting astigmatism during cataract surgery. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect and stability of limbal relaxing incisions in reducing preexisting astigmatism at the time of phacoemulsification. The study included 10 eyes in 12 patients who underwent limbal relaxing i...

PURPOSE To describe the results of cataract extraction with toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in patients with preexisting astigmatism from three corneal conditions (keratoconus, postkeratoplasty, and postpterygium surgery). METHODS Cataract patients with topographically stable, fairly regular (although sometimes very high) corneal astigmatism underwent phacoemulsification with implan...

OBJECTIVE To quantitatively document changes in corneal refractive parameters in relation to the progression of keratoconus over years. DESIGN Retrospective observational case series. PARTICIPANTS Eighty-five eyes of 64 patients with keratoconus who had undergone videokeratography examinations at least twice with an interval of 1 year or longer between each examination. METHODS By means o...

Keratoconus generates highly irregular corneal astigmatism. While age is well known to slow down the progression of keratoconic ectasia and tends to fix the subsequent irregular astigmatism, the natural onset of cataract contributes to further decrease vision in already disabled patients. To offer these patients an optimal strategy for cataract treatment, different options on how to manage irre...

AIM To study the distribution of ocular higher-order aberrations(HOAs) and mesopic pupil size in individuals screened for refractive surgery. METHODS Ocular HOAs and mesopic pupil size were studied in 2 458 eyes of 1 240 patients with myopia, myopic astigmatism and compound myopic astigmatism and 215 eyes of 110 patients with hyperopia, hyperopic astigmatism and compound hyperopic astigmatism...

PURPOSE Our study provides epidemiologic data on the prevalence of refractive errors in all age group ≥5 years in Korea. METHODS In 2008 to 2012, a total of 33,355 participants aged ≥5 years underwent ophthalmologic examinations. Using the right eye, myopia was defined as a spherical equivalent (SE) less than -0.5 or -1.0 diopters (D) in subjects aged 19 years and older or as an SE less than ...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the refractive outcomes for the correction of low to moderate astigmatism up to 1 year following small incision lenticule extraction (SMILE) surgery. METHODS This retrospective study enrolled 98 eyes from 98 patients who underwent SMILE surgery for the correction of myopia and astigmatism. Only right eyes were included in this study to avoid the bias of orientation erro...