The Early Treatment Diabetic Retinopathy Study (ETDRS) concluded that panretinal photocoagulation (PRP) should be performed before cataract surgery in patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy (1). It is also preferable to perform focal photocoagulation for macular edema before PRP (2). Recently, adoption of minimally invasive cataract surgery has reduced the postoperative progression of...

EXTRACTION of the human lens for cataract has been performed with various improvements and increasing success for just 200 years. Daviel (1748) reported the first planned extraction but, as is frequently the experience of pioneers, his operation did not at first prove popular and most surgeons continued to couch cataracts, dislocating the opaque lens within the eye as had been practised in vari...

BACKGROUND According to the high prevalence of myopia in Taiwan, we analyze the adopted cataract extractions, identify predicting factors for postoperative vision, and to assess the incidence of retinal complications after Nd: YAG laser capsulotomy in high myopic eyes. METHODS One hundred and twenty-five eyes, which the axial lengths were longer than 26 mm, following cataract extraction were ...

COMMUNITY EYE HEALTH JOURNAL | VOLUME 30 | NUMBER 100 | 2017 The first record of cataract being surgically treated is by Susruta, who carried out the procedure in 600 BC. Cataracts were treated using a technique known as couching, in which the opaque lens is pushed into the vitreous cavity to remove it from the visual axis. Couching is still performed in some parts of Africa and the Middle East...

Purpose: To quantitatively evaluate cataract surgeries performed between 2000 and 2005 at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences Methods: This retrospective study aimed at patients who had cataract and underwent surgery at Farabi Eye Hospital, Tehran from 2000 to 2005. One week per season per year was randomly selected after excluding the first two weeks of the Persian Year ...

purpose : cataract is one of the most common diseases of older ages and, at present, the leading cause of avoidable blindness in the world. along with the population growth, the rate of cataract surgeries is increasing in most countries worldwide. the number of cataract operations per million population per year is known as the cataract surgery rate (csr) and is one of the indicators introduced...

AIMS The purpose of this study was to examine whether preoperative activity of rheumatoid arthritis influences the extent of anterior chamber inflammation after cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation. METHODS The medical records of 23 consecutive patients (33 eyes) with rheumatoid arthritis, who underwent cataract extraction with intraocular lens implantation, were reviewed dur...

PURPOSE To evaluate the ability of Displacement Threshold Hyperacuity (DTH) in predicting the postoperative visual outcome in patients awaiting cataract surgery and discriminating between the relative performance of the neural and optical components of the visual system. To establish eventually the cut-off DTH values to be used clinically in the preoperative evaluation of patients with cataract...

This study analyzes the results of cataract surgery with primary intraocular lens implantation in unilateral childhood traumatic cataract following penetrating trauma and its long term follow up. It is a hospital based study of 114 children (age 3-10 years) with unilateral traumatic cataract who underwent extracapsular cataract extraction/ lens aspiration with implantation of posterior chamber ...

Simulated extracapsular cataract extractions on cadaver eyes were performed which demonstrated that the cells of the anterior capsule remain largely intact and that only a small amount of cortical lens matter remains postoperatively. Human lens epithelial cells from normal and cataractous lenses were grown in culture. There was no appreciable difference in growth rate between cells from normal ...