J Korean Ophthalmol Soc.  2020 Mar;61(3):235-242. 10.3341/jkos.2020.61.3.235.

Visual Prognosis and Satisfaction of Advanced Cataract Patients Unable to be Evaluated by Fundus Imaging

• You JI
• Bang SK
• Kang MS
• Jin KH

• KMID: 2471763
• DOI: http://doi.org/10.3341/jkos.2020.61.3.235

Abstract

PURPOSE
We evaluated the surgical prognoses of patients with advanced cataract who were unable to be evaluated by fundus imaging and their satisfaction with daily life.
METHODS
We retrospectively reviewed 748 eyes of 480 patients who underwent cataract surgery from January 2015 to December 2017. Preoperative factors, surgical technique, degree of cataract, and the best-corrected visual acuity for 1 and 6 months after surgery were analyzed. Among 91 eyes of 78 patients with advanced cataract who were unable to be evaluated by fundus imaging, the degree of discomfort before surgery and postoperative satisfaction were evaluated.
RESULTS
Hypertension was positively correlated with visual acuity after cataract surgery (p = 0.004). Low corneal endothelial cell count, primary open-angle glaucoma, a history of trabeculectomy due to glaucoma, corneal dystrophy or corneal opacity, advanced cataract unable to be evaluated by fundus imaging, hypermature cataract, extracapsular cataract extraction, and intracapsular cataract extraction and visual acuity <0.5 after 1 month showed negative correlations with the visual outcomes after 6 months (p = 0.019, p = 0.002, p = 0.037, p = 0.001, p = 0.004, p = 0.012, p = 0.00, and p = 0.00, respectively). The risk of a final visual acuity <0.5 after cataract surgery was 3.18-fold higher in cases of advanced cataract, unable to be evaluated by fundus imaging (p = 0.003). Ten patients with 10 eyes postponed surgery due to poor prognoses, which was expected, and six patients (60%) had a best-corrected visual acuity <0.5 after 6 months. Six patients (60%), expected to have a poor prognosis were satisfied after surgery and the postoperative satisfaction was high when compared with a poor visual outcome.
CONCLUSIONS
Poor surgical prognoses were expected in advanced cataract patients unable to be evaluated by fundus imaging. However, advanced cataract patients, who postponed surgery due to an unfavorable visual prognosis, showed a higher subjective satisfaction when compared with the postoperative visual acuity.

Keyword

Advanced cataract; Hypermature cataract; Mature cataract; Surgical outcome of cataract

MeSH Terms

Cataract Extraction
Cataract*
Corneal Opacity
Endothelial Cells
Glaucoma
Glaucoma, Open-Angle
Humans
Hypertension
Prognosis*
Retrospective Studies
Trabeculectomy
Visual Acuity

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  Figure 1. Comparison of postoperative satisfaction of patients with advanced cataract unable to evaluate fundus. The whole patients were compared with patients with poor prognosis was expected.

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