While cataract surgery should improve your vision significantly, you likely will need to wear glasses at least sometimes. Your doctor will test your eyesight and give you a new prescription in 1-3 months after your surgery. Posterior Capsule Opacification Sometimes after cataract surgery, you may f...
After surgery, his corrected distance visual acuity (CDVA) improved from 20/400 to 20/25, and the endothelial cell loss (ECL) % was 12.05 % at 3 months postoperatively. The rotation of the toric IOL in Case 1 was 2掳. Case 2 involved a patient with severe nuclear cataract and an ...
Tomo Nishi, M.D., Ph.D., from the Nara Medical University School of Medicine in Japan, and colleagues examined whethercataract surgerymodifies melatonin secretion at three months after cataract surgery in 169adult patients(aged 60 years or older) in a parallel-group trial. Patients were randomly...
Laser cataract surgery works well in these eyes. Although the surgical procedure itself is no different, I am cautious about using laser limbal relaxing incisions in these eyes because the preoperative assessment of corneal astigmatism is less reliable than in normal eyes. Unlike with eyes after ra...
The patient desired ametropic distance correction, so a myopic LASIK enhancement was planned 3 months after cataract surgery. Postoperative corneal OCT illustrates a slightly myopic outcome. (Courtesy of A. John Kanellopoulos, MD) SURGICAL STRATEGY ...
3.1.4. Cataract Surgery in Behcet’s Disease Cataract formation is the most common anterior segment complication after recurrent inflammation, occurring in up to 36% of cases [1]. It was reported that the postoperative visual acuity was found to be significantly lower in eyes with BD than in ...
The mean IOP had decreased to 15.7 ± 3.9 mmHg (P < 0.001) 1 month after surgery, and 15.0 ± 2.3 (P = 0.002) after 6 months. The IOP remained stable at 15.6 ± 2.8 mmHg (P < 0.001) until the patients’ last visit. After surgery, seven of the ...
Cataract is the leading cause of blindness worldwide, and advanced cataract techniques such as femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) have been commercially available. Corneal refractive surgery (CRS) is one of the most popular surgeries for the correction of refractive errors. CRS changes...
The incidence of DES was 17.1% in the diabetic patients and 8.1% in the nondiabetic patients at 7 days after cataract surgery. In the diabetic patients, the incidence of DES remained 4.8% at 1 month postoperatively and decreased to zero at 3 months after surgery. No DES was diagnosed in...
Posterior capsule opacification is a common complication after cataract surgery. It can develop months or years later and is due to a slow growth of epithelial cells remaining from the removed cataract.The Panel found that posterior capsular opacification rarely occurs within the first 3 months of ...