Cataract surgery considered as one of the most common surgical procedures performed worldwide. It has been suggested to be clinical benefit for both cataract and glaucoma by many studies. Besides removing cataracts restore vision, proved reduce intraocular pressure (IOP) in patients either with or without glaucoma. showed a great efficacy IOP reduction, considering 1st-line management Its effec...

Traumatic eyeball damages is a topical issue in present-day ophthalmology as they constitute one of the main causes vision loss people working age. Purpose: to assess feasibilty, effectiveness and safety one-time early-stage microinvasive optical reconstructive surgery patient with traumatic damage consequences: swelling cataract, lens ligamentous apparatus defect, iridodialysis, mydriasis. Mat...

purpose: to evaluate the ability to predict visual outcome after penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in patients with pseudophakic or aphakic corneal edema (pce or ace). methods: medical records of 34 patients (34 eyes) who underwent pkp for pce or ace during 1994-2004 in ahvaz were retrospectively analyzed for variables in the history and ocular examination before pkp and visual outcome after pkp. ...

OBJECTIVES To review recent data on blindness and low vision due to cataract in Latin America. METHODS Presentation of findings from population-based prevalence surveys conducted between 1999 and 2006 in nine Latin American countries covering 30,544 people aged 50 years and older. RESULTS Prevalence of cataract blindness in people 50 years and older ranged from 0.5% in Buenos Aires to 2.3% ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the governmental costs of patients undergoing phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction at a public hospital in a developing country. METHODS A prospective study was conduced with 205 patients. The subjects were randomized for cataract surgery using either phacoemulsification or extracapsular cataract extraction techniques. RESULTS Of the 205 patients, 10...

PURPOSE To assess the association between age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and previous cataract surgery. METHODS We studied 17,987 randomly selected participants from the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey who were aged ≥40 years and underwent additional ophthalmologic examinations in 2008‒12. The associations between previous cataract surgery and early/late AMD wer...

PURPOSE The benign nature of Nd:YAG laser peripheral iridotomy (LPI) has recently been questioned because of increased cataract formation and other complications. This retrospective study includes 522 consecutive eyes of 275 individuals (group 1) on whom LPI was performed between January 1, 1991, and December 31, 2000, for which at least 5 years of complete follow-up was available. METHODS Pa...

THIS year’s EURETINA meeting included a joint EURETINA/ESCRS symposium on where anterior segment and posterior segment surgery meet. Commencing the session, co-chairman, Gisbert Richard MD, University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, described a combined surgery procedure for cataract patients who require pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) for such indications as epiretinal membranes, macular holes a...

BACKGROUND Cataract surgery is one of the most common medical procedures undertaken worldwide. AIMS To investigate whether cataract surgery can improve driving performance and whether this can be predicted by changes in visual function. METHODS 29 older patients with bilateral cataracts and 18 controls with normal vision were tested. All were licensed drivers. Driving and vision performance...

PURPOSE To report the incidence, clinical settings, and visual acuity outcomes of acute-onset endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. DESIGN Retrospective, observational case series. METHODS Annual cataract surgery statistics were determined by review of electronic surgical records. The clinical and microbiologic records were reviewed of all patients with clinically diagnosed endophthalmiti...