The place and relevance of manual small incision cataract surgery Modern cataract surgery aims to achieve a better unaided visual acuity with rapid post surgical recovery and minimal surgery related complications. Early visual rehabilitation, better unaided visual acuity and surgical safety can be achieved in a great measure by reducing the incision size. Incision size depends on the mode of nu...

PURPOSE To study the visual outcome of cataract surgery in eyes with uveitis. METHODS A retrospective analysis of patients with uveitis operated for cataract. RESULTS 106 eyes of 89 patients with uveitis were operated for cataract. In 62.3% eyes (66/106), post-operative follow-up was at least 6 months. There was significant improvement (P < 0.001) in visual acuity after cataract surgery. Pr...

SummaryIn 2001, we conducted a population-based cluster survey of the prevalence of blindness and glaucoma in three districts of the Volta region of Ghana, West Africa. A secondary purpose was to assess the presenting visual acuities of individuals who had undergone extracapsular cataract extraction with an intraocular lens implant (ECCE/IOL) and intracapsular cataract extraction (ICCE). The ta...

Eighty patients undergoing routine standardised extracapsular cataract surgery with lens implantation were divided randomly into two groups in a prospective double blind study comparing effects of preoperative norfloxacin eyedrops with placebo on bacterial contamination of anterior chamber aspirates after surgery. Pathogenic organisms were identified from 19 (24%) of the aspirates. The most com...

BACKGROUND We studied the incidence and clinical characteristics of persistent diplopia related to anaesthesia for cataract surgery in a general hospital. METHODS This was a retrospective review of anaesthesia for 3587 cataract surgeries. Of all the cases of diplopia referred to the ocular motility clinic after cataract surgery, those involving anaesthesia-related diplopia lasting longer than...

SIR,-In the light of the article by Messrs D A K Watters and A C Bayley (26 September, p 761) I am concerned at the increasing irrelevance ofsome modern ophthalmic techniques for doctors training in Britain who intend to return to Africa and other countries. Now, even the ancient art of cataract extraction has become high tech. In 1949 at St Thomas's Harold Ridley was the first to replace the c...

The benefits of Nd:YAG laser capsulotomy on visual performance were evaluated in 13 patients with after-cataract following extracapsular cataract extraction. Besides clinical evaluation we measured: visual acuity, letter contrast sensitivity with and without the presence of a circular glare source (glare angle: 8 degrees). Finally, the patients were asked to evaluate their subjective glare prob...

AIM The aim of our study was to retrospectively evaluate the effectiveness and safety of cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation (IOL) for patients aged 90 years or older, whom we define as "very elderly." METHODS The study involved a total number of 122 patients (122 eyes) with senile cataracts. The mean age of patients was 91.2 ± 2.3 years (range 90-100 years old). Phacoemulsific...

Cataract surgery has at least a 3000-year history, but it was not until the 19th century when it was refined to become a routine and successful procedure. Until early this century, the extracapsular technique, introduced by Daviel in 1748, was generally performed in Europe and America, and Mexico was no exception. The brightest and most distinguished Mexican physicians practiced that surgery. S...