Abstract:

Purpose: To report the early time patient results of uncomplicated cataract surgery with phacoemulsification. Material and Methods: Data regarding to 401 eyes of 255 patients whom consecutively underwent to phacoemulsification surgery from January 2007 to December 2009 were evulated retrospectively. Visual acuity and intraocular pressure were examined preoperative and postoperative 1st day, 1st week and 1st month. Age, gender, eye laterality, cataract types, and systemic diseases were also included. Results: The mean age of the study group [144 (56.4%) male, and 111 (43.6%) female patients] was 68 years. Of them; 109 (42.7%) patient operated from one eye and 146 (57.3%) from both eyes. At postoperative first month, 70% of the patients had spherical refraction between (from -0.50 to +0.50) diopter and 34.3% had cylindrical refraction between (from -0.50 to +0.50) diopter. Preoperative intraocular pressure was 14.1±3.0 (541) mmHg and after surgery it was 15.2±4.9 (5-41) mmHg at 1st day, 13.3±2.8 (6-23) mmHg at 1st weekand 12.6±1.9 (6-21) mmHg at 1st month (p<0.05). Conclusion: Results of cataract surgery with phacoemulsification surgical technique is highly reliable. One of the most important advantages of this surgical technique is postoperative low astigmatism. In this study, emmetropia was obtained approximately in 70% of our patients.

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