Abstract

CURBELO CUNILL, Luis et al. Integration of facochop to the modern cataract surgery: the multichop technique. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2006, vol.19, n.1, pp. 0-0. ISSN 1561-3070.

The present paper described a new technique for the cataract surgery using phacoemulsification and for the micro-incision cataract surgery designed by Dr Luis Curbelo and colleagues from “Ramón Pando Ferrer” Cuban Institute of Ophthalmology. This procedure was based on other phacochop techniques from which, after a selection and integration process, a new concept known as the multichop technique emerged. The latter summarizes in three phases the main variants of crystalline chopping, applying each of them at the right safer and optimally efficient moment to give rise to a versatile phacochop variant applicable to a wide range of cyrstalline lens hardness degrees. It has great prospects both in standard phacoemulsification and micro-incision cataract surgery. The antecedents, the chopping mechanism, the details of the technique and the implements used, the phacodynamic parameters, some results and comments on its implementation were described

Keywords : Phacoemulsification; cataract.

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