BACKGROUND AND AIM: This prospective study was aimed to compare efficacy and safety of combined surgery and sequential surgeries in patients with primary glaucoma and visually significant senile cataract. MATERIALS AND METHODS: 50 consecutive patients having coexisting visually significant senile cataract with primary glaucoma were included in study. Patients underwent detailed history, ocular ...

Bimanual microincisional cataract surgery has been introduced recently as a technique for cataract surgery and it is gaining interest of many cataract surgeons in the world. Over the last few years many changes were made in the phacoemulsification machines and the intraocular lenses design which allowed bimanual microincisional cataract surgery to be safer and more efficient. The purpose of thi...

OBJECTIVES To analyze trajectories of cataract surgery rates and to confirm the switch between inpatient cases and day surgery or outpatient cases. DESIGN Pooled, cross-sectional, time series analysis. METHODS Data on 20 European countries from 2004 to 2014 retrieved from the OECD. RESULTS The number of cataract surgery cases per 100,000 population has increased since 2004 (b = 31.1, p < ...

The aim of this study was to determine the presence of prior cataract surgery and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) in an elderly Japanese cohort. The Fujiwara-kyo Eye Study was a prospective, population-based, cross-sectional epidemiological study. The subjects were ≥68 years who lived in the Nara Prefecture and responded to recruitment notices. All of the subjects underwent comprehensive op...

BACKGROUND cataract is a leading cause of reversible vision impairment and may increase falls in older adults. OBJECTIVE to assess the risk of an injury due to a fall among adults aged 60+, 2 years before first-eye cataract surgery, between first-eye surgery and second-eye surgery and 2 years after second-eye surgery. DESIGN a retrospective cohort study. SETTING Western Australian Hospita...

BACKGROUND/AIMS Unoperated cataract is the main challenge to blindness reduction in China. This demonstration project in Guangdong Province was designed to test various strategies to improve the cataract surgical rate. METHODS Two strategies (reduction of the cataract surgical fee and training of country doctors in the detection of cataract blindness) were implemented in each of two counties....

PURPOSE To present the cataract surgery practice pattern among the ophthalmic surgeons in hospitals managed by the Ministry of Health (MOH) in Malaysia. DESIGN Secondary data analysis on Malaysian Cataract Surgery Registry (CSR). METHODS The Malaysian CSR collected data on cataract surgeries done at all the ophthalmology departments in MOH from year 2002 to 2004 (paper-based) and 2007 to 20...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown that, despite an increasing availability of cataract surgery, important socioeconomic barriers exist in the acceptance of surgery in many rural areas of south Asia. Nepal has developed a comprehensive national network of eye hospitals but the surgical coverage for the treatment of cataract blind is still low. AIMS To determine the utilisation of cataract...

In this article, we present data on aged and disabled Medicare hospital insurance enrollees discharged with the principal diagnosis of cataract from short-stay hospitals. Medical technology has reduced the risk of cataract surgery and the time needed to perform the surgery. As a result, the number of enrollees undergoing cataract surgery has increased. Also, such surgery has been shifted from i...