High Rate of Early Posterior Capsule Opacification following Femtosecond Laser-Assisted Cataract Surgery

PURPOSE: To compare the rates of rapid posterior capsule opacification (PCO) formation in the first 3 months following femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) to manual anterior capsulorhexis. METHODS: Retrospective review of 29 cases of FLACS, comparing the rates of PCO in the first 3 m...

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Autores principales: Rostami, Benjamin, Tian, Jack, Jackson, Nicholas, Karanjia, Rustum, Lu, Kenneth
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5216236/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28101040
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000449124
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Sumario:PURPOSE: To compare the rates of rapid posterior capsule opacification (PCO) formation in the first 3 months following femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery (FLACS) to manual anterior capsulorhexis. METHODS: Retrospective review of 29 cases of FLACS, comparing the rates of PCO in the first 3 months following surgery to 50 consecutive cases of manual anterior capsulorhexis. RESULTS: Seven of the 29 FLACS cases developed PCO requiring capsulotomy at 3 months, while none of the control cases required a capsulotomy over the same time period (p < 0.05). CONCLUSION: There is an increased incidence of early-onset PCO following the use of femtosecond laser in cataract surgery that is otherwise unfounded in manual capsulorhexis. This suggests that the use of a femtosecond laser could increase the risk of this novel postoperative complication.

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