Purpose: A review of posterior capsule opacification (PCO) after cataract surgery and some affecting factors Methods: A cross-sectional study was designed to study cataract patients who underwent cataract surgery between 2003 and 2006 in Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran, Iran. Random sampling was done. Those with a history of uveitis, intraocular surgery, and eye trauma were excluded from the study....

AIMS To determine the coverage, outcome, and barriers to uptake of cataract surgery in leprosy villages of north eastern Nigeria. METHODS People 30 years and above resident in eight leprosy villages were examined. Cataract blind people were questioned about the reasons they had not been treated. Subjects who had received an operation for cataract were examined to determine the outcome and, wh...

purpose: to evaluate the early and intermediate outcomes of ahmed glaucoma valve implantation in pediatric glaucoma at labbafinejad medical center. methods: this was a retrospective chart review of 101 eyes of 80 consecutive patients with pediatric glaucoma who underwent ahmed glaucoma valve implantation. success was defined as an intraocular pressure less than 21 mmhg with or without medicatio...

purpose: in the present study we have tried to find the most reliable intraocular lens (iol) power calculation formula in patients with keratoconus (kcn) and cataract. methods: in a prospective case series between october 2010 and march 2012, eligible patients with cataract and kcn underwent phacoemulsification with iol implantation. preoperatively, based on iol master keratometric data iol pow...

Endophthalmitis is a devastating complication of cataract surgery and occurs in about 0.1% of patients. However, few if any health care institutions have processes in place to monitor the rate of infection after cataract surgery. Such was the case at our institution, where complications associated with phacoemulsification procedures (cataract surgery) were neither monitored for nor reported. In...

SEPTEMBER 2009 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY I 31 S ince first introduced to ophthalmic surgery in 1979, ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (OVDs) have helped surgeons maintain the anterior chamber and protect ocular tissue during cataract surgery. Injected prior to the capsulorhexis and then again during different phases of surgery, OVDs afford surgeons time and space during operations; ...

EXTRACTION of the opaque intra-ocular lens has always been a favourite and important eye operation. The dexterity and the instruments needed for the removal of the cataractous lens have attracted the interest of ophthalmologists and have called forth a vast literature on the various methods of miraculously restoring the power of sight to the blind.' Operating Chair.-One of the fundamental condi...

Cataract surgery transformed radically this past century. From cocaine topical anesthesia, immobilized patients, and extracapsular technique on ‘ripe’ cataracts we advanced to retrobulbars, sutured incisions, and intracapsular technique. Today’s techniques recapitulate those of old, with topical anesthesia and intact capsular bag support of implants enabling virtually instant visual recovery, m...

AIM Little information exists on the impact of cataract surgery on falls and other injuries in Vietnam. The aim of this study was to determine the impact of first and both eye cataract surgery on the number of falls and other injuries among bilateral cataract patients in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. MATERIALS AND METHODS A longitudinal cohort study was conducted involving 413 bilateral cataract...

Cataract is a highly treatable condition due to advances in cataract surgery, procedures and intraocular lens design. Currently 90% of the cataract surgeries are performed with intraocular lens (IOL). The aim of cataract surgery to improve visual function which also improves overall quality of life. The objectives were to find out the current visual outcome among subjects of post cataract surge...