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Cataract surgery rates.
February 2012, Vol. 102, No. 2 SAMJ Cataract surgery rates To the Editor: Thank you for publishing the article by Lecuona and Cook on the important topic of cataract surgical rates (CSR) in the RSA.1 Indeed, the difficulty in increasing the CSR to the recommended annual target of 2 000 (to eliminate blindness from cataract) is exactly what others in Africa have experienced. Even in some very we...
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OBJECTIVE To determine the cumulative probability of cataract surgery and factors accounting for such surgery. METHODS Respondents to the Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old survey, a national longitudinal panel, were interviewed in 1998, 2000, and 2002 to determine whether they had undergone cataract extraction since the previous interview (N = 8363 in 1998). Multivariate analysis...
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Acute-onset postoperative endophthalmitis is a rare but vision-threatening complication of cataract surgery. The incidence rate varies substantially in the literature but is generally reported in the range of 0.03% to 0.2%. In the current issue of Ophthalmology, Creuzot-Garcher et al report a retrospective series of 6 371 242 phacoemulsification surgeries in which the rate of endophthalmitis de...
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SEPTEMBER 2009 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY I 31 S ince first introduced to ophthalmic surgery in 1979, ophthalmic viscosurgical devices (OVDs) have helped surgeons maintain the anterior chamber and protect ocular tissue during cataract surgery. Injected prior to the capsulorhexis and then again during different phases of surgery, OVDs afford surgeons time and space during operations; ...
متن کامل[Cataract surgery].
EXTRACTION of the opaque intra-ocular lens has always been a favourite and important eye operation. The dexterity and the instruments needed for the removal of the cataractous lens have attracted the interest of ophthalmologists and have called forth a vast literature on the various methods of miraculously restoring the power of sight to the blind.' Operating Chair.-One of the fundamental condi...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: South African Medical Journal
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2078-5135
DOI: 10.7196/samj.5559