Yeungnam Univ J Med.  1989 Jun;6(1):81-86. 10.12701/yujm.1989.6.1.81.

Intraocular Pressure Changes in the Uneventful Extra-capsular Cataract Extraction and Extra-capsular Cataract Extraction with Vitreous Loss followed by Anterior Chamber Lens Implantation

• Park YH
• Lee KW
• Hahn DK

• KMID: 2377264
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.1989.6.1.81

Abstract

These days the posterior chamber lens implantation following the extracapsular cataract extraction has become the standard procedure except those patients who cannot take it in one reason or another. In past, however, the anterior chamber lens implantation was popular for sometimes. Even now in those patient complicated by vitreous loss, the anterior chamber lens implantation following anterior vitrectomy is indicated in some cases. We have become interested in the difference of the intraocular pressure change in the patients who underwent the uneventful extra-capsular cataract extraction followed by anterior chamber lens implantation in routine manner and in those whose extra-capsular cataract extraction were complicated by vitreous loss and eventually needed the anterior vitrectomy before the anterior chamber lens implantation. We reviewed the medical records of 15 cases of the former group and 11 cases of the latter one in 1986 through 1988. There was some difference in the postoperative pressure in the two groups, but it was not statistically significant.

MeSH Terms

Anterior Chamber*
Cataract Extraction*
Cataract*
Humans
Intraocular Pressure*
Medical Records
Vitrectomy