BACKGROUND High volume cataract surgery is practised in many eye centres. OBJECTIVE To investigate whether routine high volume cataract surgery can be performed without compromising the quality of surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS A retrospective interventional study was carried out at a high volume eye care centre including 368 subjects with cataract operated within 5 randomly selected theatr...

PURPOSE To evaluate the long-term visual outcomes and complications of cataract surgery in eyes previously treated for retinoblastoma. METHODS We reviewed the medical records of patients who underwent cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation at Seoul National University Children's Hospital for a secondary cataract that developed after retinoblastoma treatment. RESULTS During th...

PURPOSE To compare cataract surgery contamination rates in large-incision extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PE), we studied 65 cases prospectively. METHODS Thirty-five cases were operated by large-incision ECCE (Group I) and 30 by PE (Group II). Conjunctival swab cultures were taken immediately before surgery and anterior chamber aspirate was taken for culture ...

PURPOSE To compare the course and magnitude of change on the horizontal and vertical meridians of the cornea after 5 different incisions for cataract: extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE), 6 mm superior scleral tunnel (6Sup), 3 mm superior scleral tunnel (3Sup), 3 mm temporal scleral tunnel (3Temp), and 3 mm temporal corneal incision (3Cor). METHODS Retrospective chart review of 665 cases...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE To compare the architecture of single plane self-sealing clear corneal incision (SP-CCI) and shallow grooved self-sealing clear corneal incision (SG-CCI) after cataract surgery using Fourier-domain optical coherence tomography (FD-OCT). PATIENTS AND METHODS An FD-OCT system with a corneal adaptor module was used to image the corneal incisions in radial sections in 44 ...

PURPOSE To evaluate the effectiveness of toric intraocular lens (IOL) implantation combined with limbal relaxing incision (LRI) for patients with high-amplitude astigmatism. METHODS This single-center, prospective study evaluated 22 eyes of 19 patients with cataract and >2.50 diopters (D) astigmatism that underwent bimanual micro-phacoemulsification cataract surgery and toric IOL implantation...

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...

INTRODUCTION Endophthalmitis following cataract surgery is a rare but devastating ocular complication where delay in treatment not only results in vision loss but also in difficulty to save the eye ball. OBJECTIVE To explore the clinical profile and visual outcome following pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) in acute endophthalmitis after cataract surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a retrospec...

PURPOSE To analyze the outcomes of post-cataract surgery descemetopexy for Descemet membrane detachment using intracameral air injection. SETTING Cornea Department, LV Prasad Eye Institute, Hyderabad, India. DESIGN Interventional case series. METHODS The clinical data of patients who had descemetopexy from August 2010 to February 2011 for Descemet membrane detachment after cataract surger...