purpose : to evaluate the safety and efficacy of limbal relaxing incisions (lris) for corneal astigmatism correction during phacoemulsification methods : 24 eyes of 24 patients with the mean age of 65.71 years (range: 55 to 83 years) with senile cataracts and mean corneal astigmatism of 1.9±0.83 diopters (d) (range: 1.5 to 3.5 d) were included in this study. all lris were performed during phaco...

BACKGROUND Previous research has suggested that the silicon BD Atomic Edge knife has superior performance characteristics when compared to a metal knife and performance similar to diamond knife when making various incisions. This study was designed to determine whether a silicon accurate depth knife has equivalent performance characteristics when compared to a diamond limbal relaxing incision (...

A 60-year-old man with bilateral corneal opacity underwent cataract extraction surgery involving the use of a limbal relaxing incision in his left eye. He had lower lid ectropion and lagophthalmos in both eyes. Eleven days after the surgery, a slit-lamp examination revealed a neurotrophic corneal ulcer with a punch-out epithelial defect and rolled edges at the center of the pre-existing corneal...

Limbal relaxing incisions are one of the more commonly performed procedures with phacoemulsification to correct preexisting astigmatism during cataract surgery. The aim of the study was to evaluate the effect and stability of limbal relaxing incisions in reducing preexisting astigmatism at the time of phacoemulsification. The study included 10 eyes in 12 patients who underwent limbal relaxing i...

purpose: to evaluate the effectiveness of limbal relaxing incision (lri) during phacoemulsification for correcting pre-existing corneal astigmatism. methods: the study included 21 eyes of 21 patients undergoing phacoemulsification combined with lri and 36 eyes of 36 patients undergoing phacoemulsification without lri as controls. lri was created according to a nomorgram based on preoperative as...

BACKGROUND The limbal relaxing incisions (LRIs) technique is a safe and an inexpensive procedure, which is simple for experts to perform. It can effectively reduce astigmatism and result in a rapid visual rehabilitation. But there are few reports about reducing pre-existing corneal astigmatism by LRI in ICL surgery. Our research was aimed to study the effect of limbal relaxing inci sions during...

.................................. Purpose: To determine the difference in mean post-operative astigmatism of patients having limbal relaxing incisions with phacoemulsification as compared to phacoemulsification alone for the correction of pre-existing corneal astigmatism. Material and Methods: This study was conducted in the Civil Hospital Karachi Eye Unit II, from 1 st December 2009 1 st Dece...