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...

Temporal incisions made during cataract extraction have been purported to cause negative dysphotopsia. A case in which negative dysphotopsia occurred after superior scleral tunnel incisions is described. The dystopsia symptoms resolved immediately after intraocular lens exchange using temporal corneal incisions.

BACKGROUND In Physicians' Health Study I, randomized trial results indicated no major beneficial effect of 5 years of low-dose aspirin treatment on total cataract (relative risk [RR], 0.94; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.79-1.13) or cataract extraction (RR, 0.81; 95% CI, 0.65-1.01) during the period of treatment. OBJECTIVE To examine the effect of assigned aspirin treatment and posttrial, se...

Extraction of lenses for cataract surgery is one of the most frequent outpatient surgical procedures; more than three million cases are performed annually in the United States. Phacoemulsification is the commonly used method for cataract extraction. Phacoemulsification systems (also known as phacoemulsifiers, cataract extraction units, or simply, phaco units) apply high-frequency oscillations t...

purpose : to report the complications and acute and chronic managements of a case of corneal bee sting injury and to report the outcome of visual performance case report : a 28-year-old caucasian man who was stung by insect and was complaining of ocular pain and decreased vision in the left eye, presented to the emergency room. a sting was found and completely removed. corneal edema, bullous ke...

We present a large comparative series of trypan blue use in cataract surgery. This series of trypan blue used in all eyes regardless of cataract severity may be unique. We found an apparent increased rate of cystoid macular oedema (CMO) associated with trypan blue use. Melles et al’s report on the use of trypan blue in cataract extraction in 1999 combined with Apple et al’s series on dye enhanc...