purpose: to determine the incidence and risk factors associated with glaucoma following congenital cataract surgery (ccs) in children under age of 15 methods: this prospective cohort (since 2006) consisted of children less than 15 years of age who underwent cataract surgery with or without intraocular lens (iol) implantation. the role of the following factors on the development of glaucoma afte...

INTRODUCTION In manual, tunnel-incision cataract surgery, nucleus extraction has remained a crucial issue and a challenge. It is also the period when serious complications easily occur, especially for beginners and when the nucleus is large and dense. OBJECTIVES To report a modified vectis technique for nucleus extraction in sutureless, manual, small-incision cataract surgery (MSICS) to impro...

Purpose: To investigate long-term visual outcome and complications after cataract extraction and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in Fuchs’ heterochromic iridocyclitis (FHI) Methods: In this retrospective study in a private eye clinic in Tehran, 25 eyes of 24 patients with FHI who underwent cataract extraction and IOL implantation were evaluated based on their visual outcome and intraoperati...

Patient expectations for cataract surgery have increased significantly over the past several decades as surgeons have transitioned from standard extracapsular techniques to clear-cornea phacoemulsification. In addition to short operating times, topical anesthesia, and a sutureless procedure, patients increasingly expect spectacle independence following cataract extraction. In this tutorial we p...

AIM To analyse the outcome of high volume cataract surgery in a developing country, community based, high volume eye hospital. METHODS In a non-comparative interventional case series, the authors reviewed the surgical outcomes of 593 patients with cataract operated upon by three high volume surgeons on six randomly selected days. There were 318 female (54%) and 275 male (46%) patients. Their ...

Aim: To analyse the outcome of high volume cataract surgery in a developing country, community based, high volume eye hospital. Methods: In a non-comparative interventional case series, the authors reviewed the surgical outcomes of 593 patients with cataract operated upon by three high volume surgeons on six randomly selected days. There were 318 female (54%) and 275 male (46%) patients. Their ...

IMPORTANCE Smoking is a risk factor for cataract development, but the effect of smoking cessation on the risk of cataract is uncertain. OBJECTIVE To examine the association between smoking cessation and the risk of cataract extraction. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A total of 44,371 men, participating in the Cohort of Swedish Men, aged 45 to 79 years, who in 1997 completed a self-admini...

By administering fluorescein intravenously to 95 patients we calculated the ratio of fluorescein concentration in the vitreous at the time of its peak level compared with the estimated unbound concentration of fluorescein in the plasma at the same time. We studied 12 normal phakic and 83 aphakic eye approximately two months, one year, and more than two years after cataract extraction. All the e...

We report a cataract operation with complications in a patient with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). The patient had a grade 4 mature brown cataract. Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens (IOL) implantation was planned; however, due to unexpected complications occurring during surgery, the operating technique was revised to an intracapsular cataract extraction. A very high vitreous pres...