cystoid macular edema (cme) is a painless disease with different etiologies, which manifests as multiple cyst like (cystoid) spaces in the macula. cme is a common cause of vision loss following cataract surgery. some risk factors for post-cataract surgery cme include intraoperative complications specially incarceration of vitreous in the surgical wound, history of diabetes, uveitis and postoper...

purpose: to assess the results of combined penetrating keratoplasty and cataract extraction by extracapsular extraction versus phacoemulsification and to compare outcomes and complications. methods: in this interventional retrospective study, 76 eyes that had undergone triple surgery were included. cataract surgery was done in two different methods of extracapsular extraction and phacoemulsific...

PURPOSE To evaluate the governmental costs of patients undergoing phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction at a public hospital in a developing country. METHODS A prospective study was conduced with 205 patients. The subjects were randomized for cataract surgery using either phacoemulsification or extracapsular cataract extraction techniques. RESULTS Of the 205 patients, 10...

Nanophthalmos refers to an eyeball of short axial length, usually less than 20 mm which leads to angle closure glaucoma due to relatively large lens. Intra-ocular lens extraction relieves the angle closure in nanophthalmos. Cataract surgery in a nanophthalmic eye is technically difficult with high risk of complications such as posterior capsular rupture, uveal effusion, choroidal haemorrhage, v...

We present a large comparative series of trypan blue use in cataract surgery. This series of trypan blue used in all eyes regardless of cataract severity may be unique. We found an apparent increased rate of cystoid macular oedema (CMO) associated with trypan blue use. Melles et al’s report on the use of trypan blue in cataract extraction in 1999 combined with Apple et al’s series on dye enhanc...

AIM To evaluate factors associated with the development of strabismus after cataract extraction and primary intraocular lens implantation. METHODS The medical records of 122 patients, aged 1.5mo to 9y, who had undergone cataract extraction with primary intraocular lens implantation between January 1993 and August 2011 were reviewed. Fourteen patients (17 eyes) with strabismus before cataract ...

AIMS To estimate the risk of retinal detachment (RD) following cataract extraction in Denmark, and to compare the risk with that following cataract extraction in the USA, and with that in a sample of Danish patients who did not have ocular surgery. METHODS A sample was created from the administrative Danish Hospital Register and included 19,252 patients who underwent first eye cataract surger...

PURPOSE To present the cataract surgery practice pattern among the ophthalmic surgeons in hospitals managed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Malaysia. DESIGN Secondary data analysis on Malaysian Cataract Surgery Registry (CSR). METHODS The Malaysian CSR collected data on cataract surgeries done at all the ophthalmology departments in MOH from year 2002 to 2004 (paper-based) and 2007 to 20...

AIMS To evaluate and compare prospectively the anterior chamber inflammatory response after phacoemulsification cataract surgery and after trabeculectomy with peripheral iridectomy. METHODS Anterior chamber inflammation was measured using the Kowa FM-500 laser flare meter in 131 patients undergoing trabeculectomy and 148 patients undergoing phacoemulsification cataract extraction with intraoc...

PURPOSE To estimate the long-term cumulative risk of retinal detachment (RD) after cataract extraction. METHODS Using the resources of the Rochester Epidemiology Project, we retrospectively identified all residents of Olmsted County, Minnesota, who had cataract extraction from 1980 through 2004 (10,256 cataract extractions in 7,137 residents) and were diagnosed with RD. The observed probabili...