The problem of rehabilitation patients with cataract, analysis effectiveness surgical treatment, restoration professional activity and obtaining a high quality life after cataract surgery is great medical social importance. basic principles modern medicine are patient orientation, personalized multidisciplinary approach. Attention focused not on an individual disease its symptoms, but the as wh...

purpose: to report the outcomes of graft refractive surgery (grs) together with clear-cornea phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (iol) implantation in post-penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) eyes. methods: fourteen eyes of 13 patients who had received pkp underwent simultaneous grs (relaxing incisions with or without counter-quadrant compression sutures) and clear-cornea phacoemulsification wi...

PURPOSE This study aimed to evaluate the frequency of strabismus and chronological, etiological, and morphological features in patients with pediatric cataracts. METHODS Medical records of pediatric patients were evaluated at the Congenital Cataract Section, Department of Ophthalmology, Federal University of São Paulo, from 2001 to 2011. Patients with congenital cataract or developmental cata...

PURPOSE To determine the effect of main morphological types and grades of age-related cataracts on refractive error. METHODS We measured 276 subjects with optical compensation prior to the development of cataract. We evaluated 224 eyes with nuclear cataract, 125 with cortical cataract, and 103 with posterior subcapsular (PSC) cataract classified with LOCSIII. We measured visual acuity (VA) wi...

A clinical case of congenital aniridia in combination with high degree hyperopia, cataract, ophthalmohypertension, foveal hypoplasia is presented. The article analyzes the results a complex morphofunctional studies conducted before and after cataract surgery, presents practical data on differential diagnosis glaucoma ophthalmohypertension therapeutic approaches, including use diaphragm contact ...

Abstract Background Cataract surgery is traumatic to the corneal epithelium,scarring and opacity commonest cause of blindness. Objective To study epithelial thickness in different conditions using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT). Patients Methods A case-control including 80 eyes divided equally into 4 groups; group 1:controls,group 2:corneal scarring ,group 3:cataract pat...