purpose: to assess the results of combined penetrating keratoplasty and cataract extraction by extracapsular extraction versus phacoemulsification and to compare outcomes and complications. methods: in this interventional retrospective study, 76 eyes that had undergone triple surgery were included. cataract surgery was done in two different methods of extracapsular extraction and phacoemulsific...

BACKGROUND several studies have shown comparable visual outcomes of SICS and phacoemulsification (Gogate et al 2007, Ruit et al 2007). OBJECTIVE to compare the safety and efficacy of different types of surgical procedures (phacoemulsification versus SICS) for cataract surgery in immature cataract. MATERIAL AND METHODS a prospective randomized controlled trial was carried out involving 93 an...

PURPOSE A systematic review and meta-analysis comparing the safety, efficacy, and expenses related to phacoemulsification versus manual small incision cataract surgery (SICS). METHODS PubMed, Cochrane, and Scopus databases were searched with key words manual SICS 6/18 and 6/60; astigmatism and endothelial cell loss postoperatively, intra- and post-operative complications, phacoemulsification,...

background: we administered paracetamol and fentanyl at the beginning of phacoemulsification cataract surgery. we think that paracetamol administered alone is as effective as fentanyl in treating pain after cataract surgery with fewer side effects during operation and in post anesthesia care unit (pacu). the goal of this study was to compare to the postoperative pain relief effect of paracetamo...

PURPOSE To evaluate the reduction of pre-existing corneal astigmatism at the time of cataract surgery with limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs). METHODS A prospective study of two groups of patients (treatment and control) with pre-existing astigmatism>or=1D was performed. The 30 patients in the control group had a temporal clear corneal phacoemulsification and the 32 patients of treatment group ...

PURPOSE To determine the role of cavitational energy as a mechanism responsible for the emulsification of the lens during phacoemulsification. SETTING Clinica Ophthalmologica Pasteur, Santiago, Chile. METHODS Cavitation and its relationship to phacoemulsification power were documented using a combination of light sources, high-speed video recording techniques, and computerized control and b...

BACKGROUND/AIM Cataract surgery has become one of the safest procedures in medicine thanks to advances in technology and surgical techniques. Although minimal, we still witness different complications. The aim of this study was to compare visual outcome and complication rate in different techniques of cataract surgery, ie in cataract surgeries with various corneal incision width. METHODS The ...

PURPOSE To elucidate the impact of phacoemulsification on aqueous monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) levels, and identify its cell origin. METHODS For clinical study, aqueous humor samples were collected before and after surgery (17.0 ± 4.0 months postoperatively) from 21 cataract cases that underwent phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Aqueous MCP-1 levels we...

Background: Phacoemulsification surgery is one of the most common surgeries in the world. Various drugs have been used alone or in combination with each other to provide effective and safe sedation in patients, but so far, a drug method agreed upon by anesthesiologists has not been proposed. The purpose of this research was to evaluate the sedative quality of midazolam or propofol with a low do...

BACKGROUND To compare the heat production of 3 different phacoemulsification machines under strict laboratory test conditions. More specifically, the thermal behavior was analyzed between the torsional modality of the Infiniti system and longitudinal modalities of the Abbot WhiteStar Signature Phacoemulsification system and Bausch and Lomb Stellaris system. METHODS Experiments were performed ...