Cataract may cause moderate vision impairment (<6/18 to 6/60), severe vision impairment, (<6/30 to 3/60) or blindness (<3/60). People may have bilateral or unilateral cataract, so it is more useful to consider the number of eyes than the number of people who require surgery. Cataract surgical rate (CSR) is the number of cataract operations performed in one year, per million population. It is a ...

purpose : to quantitatively evaluate cataract surgeries performed between 2000 and 2005 at farabi eye hospital , tehran university of medical sciences methods : this retrospective study aimed at patients who had cataract and underwent surgery at farabi eye hospital , tehran from 2000 to 2005. one week per season per year was randomly selected after excluding the first two weeks of the persian y...

Background: Cataract is one of the most common eye diseases especially in elderly patients and most of these patients require surgery. In the process of sedation, different drugs are used, each with its advantages and disadvantages. Dexmedetomidine is one of the drugs that has recently received special attention for sedation. In this study, we compared the drug combination of dexmedetomidine-fe...

purpose: to evaluate the efficacy and safety of primary aphakic artisan–verysise intraocular lens (iol) implantation during complicated cataract surgery. methods: the study is a retrospective analysis of 49 eyes that underwent primary aphakic artisan iol implantation for complicated cataract surgery. compiled data included demographic information, visual outcomes and complications. pre- and pos...

AIM To investigate the effects of an informational video on patient expectations and satisfaction with day-stay cataract surgery. METHODS 141 patients undergoing day-stay cataract surgery were randomised into one of two video groups, explaining either what to expect from the cataract surgery or the anatomy of cataract. Patients were surveyed as to their expectations for visual outcome, anxiet...

Aim: To investigate the effects of an informational video on patient expectations and satisfaction with day-stay cataract surgery. Methods: 141 patients undergoing day-stay cataract surgery were randomised into one of two video groups, explaining either what to expect from the cataract surgery or the anatomy of cataract. Patients were surveyed as to their expectations for visual outcome, anxiet...

Endophthalmitis is a devastating complication of cataract surgery and occurs in about 0.1% of patients. However, few if any health care institutions have processes in place to monitor the rate of infection after cataract surgery. Such was the case at our institution, where complications associated with phacoemulsification procedures (cataract surgery) were neither monitored for nor reported. In...

introduction: cataract is a common disease across the world and the most common cause of vision loss and blindness. several factors contribute to the disease, the most important of which is aging. other contributors include sex, smoking, sunlight, place of residence, family, job, and systemic disease. this study was aimed to enquire into the epidemiology of cataract cases referred to noor ophth...

purpose: to describe the prophylactic patterns for endophthalmitis after cataract surgery in iran. methods: in this cross-sectional study, 486 ophthalmologists, members of iranian society of ophthalmology, who participated in the 20th annual meeting of ophthalmology in december 2010, tehran-iran, filled a self-administered questionnaire. a wide range of ophthalmologists, from all around the cou...