Jost I. BARRAQUER MONER (1957) has described in detail many possible variations of buried sutures in the section for cataract extractions, and another was mentioned by Joaquin Barraquer Moner (1956). These have numerous advantages, especially reduced post-operative discomfort. The modification to be described seems to produce better apposition of the edges of the wound, and places the knot behi...

From April 1912 to March 1914 I performed 240 cataract extractions at the Sambhu Xath Pundit Hospital, Calcutta. In the first 140 cases, the operation was performed in the usual way. any residual soft matter or capsule being removed as far as possible with the scoop. The results though fair were not as good as they might have been, and a considerable percentage required secondary needling. Unfo...

BACKGROUND With high backlog of cataract blindness in the developing countries sutureless high volume cataract surgery is preferred surgical technique. OBJECTIVE To report the intraoperative complications of high volume sutureless cataract surgery at secondary level eye care centre of Nepal. METHOD This prospective study consisting 1087 eyes that underwent manual small incision cataract sur...

purpose : to determine the distribution of cataract surgery in iran between 2000 and 2005 methods : in a retrospective study based on files, cataract surgery centers were selected. between 2000 and 2005, one week of each season was selected randomly and all cataract surgery files of the center were studied. the surgeries were analyzed based on type, types of the lenses, intraoperative complicat...

A 68-year-old man underwent uncomplicated sequential cataract extractions performed more than a year apart. He presented 6 months after the second surgery with persistent intraocular inflammation in both eyes. Cultures from both eyes grew Propionibacterium acnes and he responded well to treatment. Suspicion for delayed-onset post-operative endophthalmitis must remain high in uveitis cases that ...

Diabetic cataracts are common in diabetic dogs and lead to blindness lens-induced uveitis, the complications of which may need remove eyeball. The objectives this study were provide a clinical ophthalmological characteristics cataract dogs, describe pre-, intra- postoperative phacoemulsification identify relationships between different parameters phacoemulsification, types complications, outcom...

This study was to evaluate the post operative astigmatism and visual acuity of patients after extra capsular extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification (PE) for the purpose of recommending the appropriate referral time for cataract extraction. Subject's hospital file data comprising 30 ECCE and 48 PE were collected and recorded according to gender and the technique employed in the surgical proce...