Abstract

PEREZ GOMEZ, Dayamí; GARCIA GONZALEZ, Francisco  and  NOVOA SANCHEZ, Ester. Phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation in patients with cataract caused by uveitis. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2008, vol.21, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

OBJECTIVE: To assess the results of phacoemulsification and intraocular lens implantation in cataracts caused by uveitis. METHODS: Thirty seven eyes with no inflammation for 6 months, visual acuity below 0.6 and average age of 47 years were studied. Other diseases affecting the vision were excluded. The preoperative treatment indicated anti-inflammatory drugs. Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation was performed (PMMA, optic 6 mm); during the follow-up period of 24 hours to 6 months, steroidal anti-inflammatory, non-steroids and immunosuppressive drugs were prescribed to patients for 6 weeks. RESULTS: A number of alterations were observed in the anterior segment secondary to uveitis (postsurgical, unspecific, Fuch´s heterochromic cyclitis, postraumatic, Reiter´s syndrome, caused by toxoplasmosis and other infectious choroiditis and by juvenile rheumatoid arthritis). No postsurgical recurrence of uveitis was found in 9 eyes (24.3 %). The complications were related to uveitis, surgery, inflammatory activity and capsular epithelium reaction. Posterior capsular opacity occurred in 11 patients (29.7 %) associated to younger age. Individual recovery was satisfactory in 30 (81.1 %) patients who improved their vision, that is, 0.8-1.0 in 28 and 0.5-0.6 in 2 (5.4 %) patients. CONCLUSIONS: Phacoemulsification with intraocular lens implantation is very useful to treat cataract after uveitis since surgical reaction is low, inflammation is under control and good results are achieved in addition to anatomophysiological rearrangement of the anterior segment.

Keywords : phacoemulsification [surgery]; cataract due to uveitis; phacoemulsification [uveitis].

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