Purpose: To assess the visu al ou tcom e of cataract su rgery in a tertiary hosp ital in N igeria. Methods: Three hu nd red and seventy eyes (370) that had cataract su rgery in the op hthalm ology d ep artm ent of University of Benin Teaching H osp ital (UBTH ) from Ju ly 2007 to Decem ber 2008 w ere includ ed in the stu d y. Case record s w ere retrieved and d ata from them analysed . The age ...

Approximately 70 percent of cases occur as a direct complication of intraocular surgery. Such post-operative endophthalmitis may be acute (presenting within 6 weeks of surgery) or chronic. Incidence of acute endophthalmitis following cataract extraction have been reported between 0.072% and 0.13% in various studies.1-4 The most common infecting organisms following cataract extraction are the co...

In December 1979 97 patients underwent intracapsular cataract extraction under local anaesthetic with planned discharge on the day after operation. Twenty-three of these patients had a prolonged stay in hospital, and five of these required early operative intervention following surgical complications. Sixteen patients did not attain a visual acuity better than 6/18. The visual outcome and posto...

PURPOSE Cataract is a major cause of age-related eye diseases in the United States, and cataract extraction is the most commonly performed surgery on Medicare beneficiaries. Analyzing the pattern in delivery of cataract care at the national level can highlight areas of disparities. We evaluated geographic disparities seen in cataract surgery delivery to Medicare beneficiaries in the United Stat...

purpose : to investigate long-term visual outcome and complications after cataract extraction and intraocular lens (iol) implantation in fuchs’ heterochromic iridocyclitis (fhi) methods : in this retrospective study in a private eye clinic in tehran, 25 eyes of 24 patients with fhi who underwent cataract extraction and iol implantation were evaluated based on their visual outcome and intraopera...

PURPOSE This study was designed as a microbiologic survey of the fluids aspirated from the anterior chamber at the end of cataract extraction performed by phacoemulsification, and to correlate the contamination rate of the anterior chamber to the surgical technique used. METHODS One hundred and one consecutive patients (126 eyes) who underwent cataract extraction by phacoemulsification and po...

This study was to evaluate the post operative astigmatism and visual acuity of patients after extra capsular extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PE) for the purpose of recommending the appropriate referral time for cataract extraction. Subject's hospital file data comprising 30 ECCE and 48 PE were collected and recorded according to gender and the technique employed in the surgical proce...