POST-OPERATIVE DISTRESS IN CASES OF SENILE CATARACT

Post-operative Distress in Cases of Senile Cataract.

IHE subject of my address is:-" The causes and treatment of post-operativ'e distress following operation for cataract, other than that due to surgical complications." The preand post-operative management of senile cataract was discussed at the meeting of The Ophthalmological Society at Edinburgh in 1932, but most of the speakers confined themselves to discussion of surgical complications, and o...

Post-operative Security in Cataract Cases.

Post-operative security in cataract operation.

SINCE the article on a method of providing post-operative security in cataract operation was published in the September, 1947 issue of the Brit. JI. Ophthal., some colleagues have mentioned the difficulty of carrying the upper part of the complete conjunctival flap over the wound when drawing the purse string suture -tight after the extraction. The edge of the flap, unless guided carefully by a...

Early Post-Operative Complications in Cataract Surgery

To date a number of techniques have been used for cataract surgery. However phacoemulsification is the most common method. Other methods such as intraand extracapsular cataract extraction, mini-nuc, phacosection, sandwich and phaconit have also been used by many surgeons. Over the years, the techniques of cataract surgery have evolved into a safe and successful procedure for visual rehabilitati...

Senile Cataract

course of the illness varied markedly; two cases ended on the sixth day of disease and one still survives at the thirty-seventh day now. In the intermediate examples the outstanding and most tantalising feature is the tendency to periods of remission; in one case the fluid had become practically normal only to revert to its former turbidity later. rreatment in our hands has been manifestly unsu...