End Results in Intra-Capsular Extraction (Smith's)

Experience with Extra-capsular Cataract Exraction and Intra-ocular Lens Implant in Children Expérience avec les extra capsulaire de la cataracte et Exraction intra oculaire Lens implants chez les enfants

BACKGROUND: In developing countries congenital cataract has become an important cause of treatable blindness in childhood. However, difficulty in correcting aphakia is one of the reasons for poor visual outcome. OBJECTIVE: To determine the visual outcome after extra capsular cataract extraction and intra ocular lens implant and factors militating against good visual outcome in children. METHODS...

Subjective Assessment of Pain Level during Phacoemulsification and Extra Capsular Cataract Extraction with Intraocular Lens Implantation under Topical Anesthesia

Materials and Methods: Sixty patients undergoing cataract surgery (thirty eyes using phacoemulsicification and thirty eyes with extra capsular cataract extraction technique) were included in the study. All patients received topical anesthesia with proparacain (Alcain) eye drops combined with sponge socked in Alcain eye drops in superior conjuctival sac, which remained there till the end of surg...

Intra-capsular Expression of Cataract.

To the ophthalmologist all the world over the operative treatment of cataract is a subject of never-ceasing interest. In the East, and particularly in India, it forms, to many surgeons, qualified and unqualified, specialist and not, all or most of ophthalmology. Much has been, and will continue to be, written onl the subject so long as it retains a place in ophthalmic surgery. The observations ...

Is There Still a Place for Intra-capsular Cataract Extraction or should it be Relegated to the History Books?

Effects of hip joint position and intra-capsular volume on hip joint intra-capsular pressure: a human cadaveric model

BACKGROUND Increase in hip intra-capsular pressure has been implicated in various hip pathologies, such as avascular necrosis complicating undisplaced femoral neck fracture. Our study aimed at documenting the relationship between intra-capsular volume and pressure in various hip positions. METHODS Fifty-two cadaveric hips were studied. An electronic pressure-monitoring catheter recorded the i...