BACKGROUND Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) has grown in popularity among ophthalmologists as a novel technique. However, descemet membrane detachment (DMD) began to be found as the complication after FLACS. We report a case of serious DMD following FLACS due to the inappropriate incision design. CASE PRESENTATION An 85-year-old man with apparent cornea arcus senilis underw...

PURPOSE To compare a transconjunctival single-plane sclerocorneal incision with 2 tiny conjunctival cuts at both ends and a clear corneal incision (CCI) in cataract surgery. SETTING Department of Ophthalmology, Institute of Clinical Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan. METHODS Patients having routine cataract surgery were randomly divided into 2 groups based on incision type; th...

PURPOSE To describe the results of a pars plana vitrectomy, combined with phacoemulsification, using a sutureless, superotemporal, clear corneal incision for patients with a macular hole. METHODS This study reviewed the records of 22 patients (22 eyes) who underwent a phacoemulsification with the insertion of an acrylic intraocular lens, using a 3.2 mm superotemporal clear corneal incision an...

Progression in phacoemulsification techniques for cataract surgery[1-4] has also led to inevitable changes in the delivery of accompanying anesthesia from general to local modalities [5-7] i.e. retrobulbar, peribulbar, Sub-Tenon and topical anesthesia. General anesthesia is preferred for complicated intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE) surgery as this technique involves significant manipula...

BACKGROUND: Outcome studies after cataract surgery should focus on functional status and quality of life instead of visual acuity measurement alone. OBJECTIVE: To assess patients’ quality of life (QoL) and overall visual function (VF) after manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS) with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. METHODS: A prospective hospital based study which evaluated the preo...

BACKGROUND several studies have shown comparable visual outcomes of SICS and phacoemulsification (Gogate et al 2007, Ruit et al 2007). OBJECTIVE to compare the safety and efficacy of different types of surgical procedures (phacoemulsification versus SICS) for cataract surgery in immature cataract. MATERIAL AND METHODS a prospective randomized controlled trial was carried out involving 93 an...

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...

purpose : a review of posterior capsule opacification (pco) after cataract surgery and some affecting factors methods : a cross-sectional study was designed to study cataract patients who underwent cataract surgery between 2003 and 2006 in farabi eye hospital, tehran, iran. random sampling was done. those with a history of uveitis, intraocular surgery, and eye trauma were excluded from the stud...