Showing papers on "Cataract surgery published in 1974"

Retinal detachment after congenital cataract surgery.

Abstract: Those born with congenital cataracts tend to develop retinal detachments, irrespective of whether or not cataract surgery is undertaken (Malbran and Dodds, i964), although the patient may reach middle age before the retina separates (Shapland, I962). The prospects of curing such detachments are generally regarded as poor (McDonald, I957), and since the literature is devoid of any series giving figures, this report presents the results of retinal detachment surgery in 34 eyes of 25 patients who developed retinal detachments subsequent to earlier surgery for congenital cataract.

Cataract extraction in Fuchs syndrome.

Abstract: The surgical and postoperative complications of cataract extraction in 29 patients with Fuchs syndrome (heterochromic cyclitis) are reviewed. Visual acuity of 20/40 or better was achieved by 25 of the 28 patients for whom complete follow-up information had been recorded. No vitreous hemorrhages were noted, and there was only one case of transient postoperative hyphemia. In eight cases, vitreous opacities persisted after surgery and accounted for minimal impairment of visual acuity. Only one severe complication was encountered: one patient lost vitreous at the time of surgery, and the final result was glaucoma, retinal detachment, and a sightless eye. Cataract surgery in patients with Fuchs syndrome appears to be only slightly more complicated than routine surgery for senile cataracts. Elective removal of cataractous lenses in patients with this disease should not be delayed because of fear of a poor prognosis.

The electro-oculogram in the early postoperative period following intracapsular cataract surgery

Abstract: EOGs were obtained from 30 patients with bilateral senile cataract the day before surgery and 2, 5, 8, 11, and 14 days after application of various techniques of uniocular intracapsular cataract extraction. Preoperatively and on the third postoperative day, mean EOG amplitudes of both eyes were generally about equal. In the absence of postoperative complications, trough and peak potentials of the treated eyes were significantly less than those of the untreated fellow eyes five days after surgery, and they remained at this lower level until the end of the test period. The averaged light-dark ratios about paralleled this behavior. The EOG changes observed appear to reflect delayed disturbances of the choroidal circulation as a normal consequence of cataract extraction.