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New management algorithm for acute post cataract endophthalmitis
2 February 2024
| Su Young
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Cataract and Refractive
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Bacteria, cataract, endophthalmitis, infection, pseudophakia, vitrectomy
In this study, the authors aimed to establish an objective algorithm for recommending urgent pars plana vitrectomy (PPV) to help improve visual outcomes in the current era of clear corneal-incision phacoemulsification and small gauge PPV. This study examined 150 cases...
Liquid adhesive bandage for clear corneal cataract incisions
1 June 2014
| Anju Kadyan
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Cataract and Refractive
This paper reports a prospective randomised controlled trial of patients undergoing routine phacoemulsification with a 2.75mm clear corneal incision and followed up for 14 days postoperatively. They evaluated wound edge closure, surgically induced astigmatism and foreign body sensation after use...
Wet AMD outcomes post cataract surgery
3 June 2021
| Kareem Waleed Alsaffarini
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Cataract and Refractive
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age-related cataract, antivascular endothelial growth factor, cataract surgery, wet age-related macular degeneration
The authors present the findings of a retrospective study looking at the progression of wet age-related macular degeneration (AMD) in patients who underwent cataract surgery. They recruited a series of 111 patients of which 38 were men and 73 were...
Single-use cataract procedure sets from Surgitrac
10 April 2024
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Research & Development
Surgitrac instruments offers two new cataract procedure sets, ideal for the busy ophthalmologist.
Real world results of cataract surgery in pseudoexfoliation
7 April 2021
| Mahmoud Ahmed
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Cataract and Refractive
In this single-centre retrospective cohort study, the data of pseudoexfoliation (PXF) patients undergoing phacoemulsification cataract surgery from January 2010 to December 2019 was analysed in the National Health Service setting. The study comprised 23,329 eyes of 15,257 patients. Patients with...
Refraction planning in cataract: avoid creating an unhappy patient
1 June 2017
| Robert H Taylor, Roger B Ellingham
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Cataract and Refractive
“It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.” William Osler The focus of this paper is the prevention of an unhappy patient following cataract...
A paradigm shift in the way we approach cataract surgery
1 February 2015
| Nicholas Lee
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Cataract and Refractive
Cataract surgery is the most common elective surgical procedure in the UK [1], with in the region of 350,000 cases being conducted each year. With an ageing population, this figure will only continue to rise over time. Cataract surgery is...
Diplopia after cataract surgery – risk factors
1 June 2022
| Fiona Rowe (Prof)
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Paediatric Ophthalmology / Strabismus
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anesthesia, cataract surgery, diplopia, myotoxicity, strabismus
The risk factors for binocular diplopia after uncomplicated cataract surgery in adults were studied to analyse the patterns of ocular motility and clinical causes. This was a retrospective review of 40 patients; 25 female. Onset of diplopia was at a...
Outcomes of cataract surgery in eyes with weak zonules
1 April 2017
| Eulee Seow
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Cataract and Refractive
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capsular tension ring, cataract, phacoemulsification, postoperative complications, pseudoexfoliation, weak zonules
Pseudoexfoliation (PEX) and zonular weakness have long been known to increase the risk of complication of cataract surgery. This retrospective study looks at the results of phacoemulsion and intraocular implantation in 295 eyes with pseudoexfoliation and zonular weakness, with a...
Pathway innovations to address cataract services post-COVID-19
1 June 2022
| Sam Evans, Tine Jacobs, Hari Kaneshayogan, Leo Feinberg, Conor Ramsden
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COVID-19, EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive
Background The demand for cataract services prior to the COVID-19 pandemic was already recognised to be high and growing - in the face of an ageing population and reduced surgical thresholds. When added to the growth in demand for ophthalmic...
Risk stratification to reduce intraoperative cataract surgical complications
3 June 2021
| Kurt Spiteri Cornish
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Cataract and Refractive
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Phacoemulsification, complications, posterior capsule rupture, risk stratification
The authors prospectively collected data on 1135 consecutive patients undergoing cataract surgery. They were risk stratified according to categories – A (no additional risk factors, 0 points), B (vitrectomy, corneal scarring, small pupil less than 3mm, shallow anterior chamber less...
Cystoid macular oedema following cataract surgery
1 October 2019
| Ivan Yip
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Cataract and Refractive
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NSAIDs, cataract, cataract surgery, corticosteroids, cystoid macular oedema
This review covers the history, incidence, diagnosis, risk factors, pathophysiology and medical management of postoperative macular oedema (PCMO), with a particular emphasis on key contemporary studies and novel observations. The authors revisit the incidence of well-established risk factors including intraoperative...