Recent Medical History -- Cataract Surgery

Recent medical history--cataract surgery.

Cataract Surgery Modern History

SEPTEMBER 2007 I CATARACT & REFRACTIVE SURGERY TODAY I 43 M y engineering background has allowed me to help improve the technologies, techniques, and instrumentation used for cataract and lenticular refractive surgery. This experience has been one of the most exciting intellectual adventures anyone could have. In addition, the international friendships I have developed while teaching and travel...

The History of Cataract Surgery

A Recent Development in the Surgery of Cataract By

EXTRACTION of the human lens for cataract has been performed with various improvements and increasing success for just 200 years. Daviel (1748) reported the first planned extraction but, as is frequently the experience of pioneers, his operation did not at first prove popular and most surgeons continued to couch cataracts, dislocating the opaque lens within the eye as had been practised in vari...

Are routine preoperative medical tests needed with cataract surgery?

OBJECTIVE The objective of this study was to investigate whether routine medical testing before cataract surgery reduces the rate of complications during the perioperative period in adults. METHODS The study was carried out in an academic medical center in Brazil, between 10 February 2000 and 10 January 2001. The scheduled cataract operations were randomly assigned to one of two groups: 1) to...