Treatment of Dropped Nucleus with a 27-Gauge Twin Duty Cycle Vitreous Cutter

We report herein a method for the treatment of dropped nucleus during cataract surgery with a 27-gauge twin duty cycle (TDC) vitreous cutter. When a TDC vitreous cutter is used, suction flow volume is maintained even when the cutter is driven at a high speed. This enables an Emery-Little grade 3 nuc...

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Autores principales: Watanabe, Akira, Tsuzuki, Akane, Arai, Kota, Gekka, Tamaki, Tsuneoka, Hiroshi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2016
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Published online: January, 2016
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4748802/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26889159
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000443721
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Sumario:We report herein a method for the treatment of dropped nucleus during cataract surgery with a 27-gauge twin duty cycle (TDC) vitreous cutter. When a TDC vitreous cutter is used, suction flow volume is maintained even when the cutter is driven at a high speed. This enables an Emery-Little grade 3 nucleus that had been difficult to treat with a conventional 27-gauge cutter to be successfully excised using only a vitreous cutter, with no intra- or postoperative complications. A dropped lens during cataract surgery of up to moderate hardness can be removed using a TDC cutter alone with a 27-gauge cutter system.

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