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Outcome of secondary intraocular lens implantation-conventional 23- vs. modified 27-gauge vitrectomy port anchor fixation

3 June 2024 | Sofia Rokerya | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

This retrospective case study series evaluated the outcome of a secondary intraocular lens (IOL) implantation technique of a Carlevale IOL (Soleko IOL Division, Italy) with either a conventional 23- or a modified 27-gauge (-g) vitrectomy port used as anchor fixation....

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Myopia in Han Chinese

2 February 2024 | Ian Reekie | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive | Han Chinese, Myopia-associated genes, High myopia, retinal nervous system, single nucleotide polymorphisms

The authors present a case-control study of 361 patients with high myopia (mean spherical equivalent of -6.0DS or lower, and axial length greater than or equal to 26mm) and 749 healthy controls (mean spherical equivalent -1.0 to +1.0DS). They tested...

New management algorithm for acute post cataract endophthalmitis

2 February 2024 | Su Young | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive | 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...

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Changing operating room practices: the effect on postoperative endophthalmitis rates following cataract surgery

4 October 2023 | Jonathan Chan | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive | eye (globe), infection, public health, treatment surgery

This is a retrospective clinical registry study from India of 85,552 cataract surgery patients; group 1 (56,551 patients from January-March 2020) and group 2 (29,011 patients from May-August 2020). Group 1’s patients were ungowned, surgical gloves were disinfected but not...

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Symfony and vivity: comparing two EDOF IOLs

5 June 2023 | Mahmoud Ahmed | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

This prospective, randomised, double-masked, single-surgeon study compared the visual outcome between two commonly used extended depth of focus (EDOF) lenses, the Tecnis Symfony IOL (Johnson & Johnson Vision) and the Acrysof IQ Vivity IOL (Alcon Laboratories, Inc.). Sixty-nine patients underwent...

Outcomes of plaque radiotherapy for retinoblastoma

3 April 2023 | Fiona Rowe (Prof) | EYE - Paediatrics, EYE - Refractive

The study authors evaluate their experience of plaque radiotherapy for retinoblastoma (RB) in 41 eyes of 41 patients that failed intra-arterial chemotherapy (IAC). This was a retrospective review including 21 females and 20 males. Median age was 18 months and...

Surgically induced astigmatism after cataract surgery

3 February 2023 | Kurt Spiteri Cornish | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

In this study, the authors analysed a dataset of 122 eyes of 122 patients with pre- and postoperative measurements of corneal astigmatism with IOL Master 700. A standardised 2.5mm superior corneal incision was utilised. The corneal power vector component in...

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The rate of realignment of two toric monofocal intraocular lenses (IOL)

2 August 2022 | Mahmoud Ahmed | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

This retrospective study used the American Academy of Ophthalmology Registry data to analyse the need of reoperation for realignment within the first year after cataract surgery with a TECNIS or AcrySof monofocal toric IOL implanted during 2016 and 2017. They...

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Are any precautions needed when performing cataract surgery in thrombocytopenic patients?

1 June 2022 | Mahmoud Ahmed | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

In this retrospective multi-centre study, charts for 196 eyes of 150 thrombocytopenic patients were reviewed. The mean preoperative platelet level was 73.0 ± 20.5 × 103/μL (median of 76.0 × 103/μL), with a range of 17 to 100 × 103/μL...

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Comparing tensile strengths of two scleral fixated intraocular lenses: CT-Lucia and MA60

1 June 2022 | Mahmoud Ahmed | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

The authors designed a benchtop model to measure the tensile strengths and resistance to breakage of the haptics and haptic-optic junctions of the CT Lucia 602 (Carl Zeiss, California) and AcrySof MA60 (Alcon Laboratories, Texas) IOLs. For the haptic breakage...

IOL power in short eyes

5 April 2022 | Kurt Spiteri Cornish | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

Prospective analysis of 269 eyes of 269 patients between 2017 and 2020, with axial length (AL) of 22mm or less. New principles for calculating IOL power were recently developed, including formulas based on paraxial ray-tracing (Barrett and Olsen) and based...

Corectopia grading

5 April 2022 | Su Young | EYE - Cataract, EYE - Refractive

The authors present a novel corectopia classification system using 28 eyes of 28 patients with or without corectopia. The grading and classification system for corectopia was as follows: (i) Direction of decentration: superior (DecS), superonasal (DecSN), nasal (DecN), inferonasal (DecIN),...

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