BACKGROUND To evaluate the visual outcome following cataract surgery with pupillary sphincterotomy in eyes with coexisting corneal opacity. METHODS Patients with leucomatous corneal opacity with significant cataract were enrolled for the study. The uncorrected visual acuity and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) were recorded and the anterior segment was thoroughly evaluated by a slit lamp b...

BACKGROUND A training course for cataract surgery with intraocular lens implantation was organised in April 1997 at the National Eye Centre, Kaduna, Nigeria. Operations were performed by six Nigerian consultant ophthalmologists under the supervision of two surgeons from Aravind Eye Hospital, India. METHODS A total of 175 eyes with uncomplicated cataracts were operated on after careful selecti...

BACKGROUND an effective method for cataract surgery should be identified to combat cataract blindness. AIM to study the surgical outcome of conventional extracapsular cataract extraction versus manual small-incision cataract surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS a randomized clinical trial was carried out including one hundred eyes (88 patients) which were divided into two groups using systematic ...

Endophthalmitis remains a small but definite risk during all forms of intraocular surgery and considerable effort has been and still is being expended by ophthalmologists throughout the world to minimise this risk because of the serious visual morbidity associated with such infection. The origin of the infecting organisms is predominantly from commensals on the ocular surfacel 2 and, to a lesse...

r T b k t S a i a m c A m i r i h N THIS ISSUE, RESULTS FROM A RANDOMIZED, CONtrolled trial (RCT) are published in which two techniques for cataract extraction are compared.1 The uestion of whether manual sutureless small-incision exracapsular cataract surgery (SICS) is as effective and safe s phacoemulsification is addressed. This may seem to be a fruitless enquiry because it is ssumed by most...

Recently I noticed with surprise, during extracapsular cataract surgery, that cortex was retreating from the anterior port of my simcoe cannula during aspiration, instead of being drawn towards it. On closely examining the cannula, I discovered that the infusion entering the luer connection was plumbed to exit at the anterior port, while the syringe was vigorously aspirating anything near the l...

A study of 132 cases of aphakic retinal detachment (ARD) following mainly intracapsular cataract surgery has been made. Forty-nine cases (37%) were found to have vitreous incarcerated into the cataract section out of a total of 54 (41%) cases who had suffered a vitreous complication during cataract surgery. A study of the characteristics of ARD reveals that those cases having had a vitreous com...

Cataract surgery transformed radically this past century. From cocaine topical anesthesia, immobilized patients, and extracapsular technique on ‘ripe’ cataracts we advanced to retrobulbars, sutured incisions, and intracapsular technique. Today’s techniques recapitulate those of old, with topical anesthesia and intact capsular bag support of implants enabling virtually instant visual recovery, m...

BACKGROUND/AIM Cataract surgery has become one of the safest procedures in medicine thanks to advances in technology and surgical techniques. Although minimal, we still witness different complications. The aim of this study was to compare visual outcome and complication rate in different techniques of cataract surgery, ie in cataract surgeries with various corneal incision width. METHODS The ...