purpose : to report a study design for assessing the cataract surgery outcome methods : we conducted the study in an eye hospital in which over 13,300 cataract extractions are performed annually. sampling framework and recruitment included international classification of diseases (icd)-10-based electronic hospital records of patients who underwent age-related cataract extraction within the prec...

conclusions these results demonstrated that cse, mainly through inhibition of alr2, could prevent or delay the diabetic complications, like cataract formation, as a result of sorbitol accumulation. results the cse inhibited alr2 activity, with an ic50 of 0.54 mg/ml and it was seven and a half times greater than that of alr1 inhibition, indicating the specificity of cse for alr2, rather than alr...

IN 1951, Dr. David Harrington of the Division of Ophthalmology, University of California, San Francisco, sent me one of his erisophakes. Since then I have used the instrument sporadically, by which I mean that in an operating list oftwo, three, or four cataract extractions, an occasional one was done with the erisophake, the rest in the ordinary way. Fifty such extractions have now been perform...

AIM To report the short and medium term outcome of a prospective series of sutureless manual extracapsular cataract extractions (ECCE) at a high volume surgical centre in Nepal. METHODS Cataract surgery was carried out, on eyes with no co-existing diseases, in 500 consecutive patients who were likely to return for follow up. The technique involved sclerocorneal tunnel, capsulotomy, hydrodisse...

rous attack, in your July issue, on my article headed " Sixtyone eye operations in one day" and which yoti were kind enough to publish about 2 years ago. The references he quotes to belittle my results, viz., (a) 1903 statistics, a period when conjunctival asepsis was almost in its infancy and operative technique was not so widely possessed, (b) Norris and Olivers, Vol. Ill, a system on ophthal...