Abstract

RODRIGUEZ ALONSO, Yamirka et al. Results of the surgical treatment of the trauma cataract. Rev Cubana Oftalmol [online]. 2011, vol.24, n.2, pp. 248-259. ISSN 0864-2176.

Objective: To describe the results of surgical treatment of traumatic cataract patients who were seen at the ocular emergency service of “Dr. Juan Bruno Zayas Alfonso” general hospital in Santiago de Cuba, in 2008. Methods: An observational, descriptive, cross-sectional study was conducted to analyze variables such as age, sex, type of trauma, associated ocular disorders, visual acuity, best corrected preoperative and postoperative surgical treatment and complications. The information obtained was processed by SPSS-11,6 statistical software, using the absolute and relative frequency as an outcome measure. Results: There was a predominance of patients between 25 and 34 years of age (50 %), male (80,8 %) and blunt trauma (76,9 %) with lens subluxation in 30,8 % of cases. Before surgery, 69,2 % of patients had best corrected visual acuity ranging 0,01 to 0,09 and 84,6 % had postoperative acuity between 0,4 and 1,0. One hundred percent of the patients underwent extracapsular lens extraction by Blumenthal technique, 69,2 % did not require anterior vitrectomy, whereas posterior chamber lenses were placed in 53,8 % of cases. Posterior capsule opacity was present in 34,6 % of the surgical patients. Conclusions: Surgical treatment of traumatic cataract, if planned and performed in due time, leads to good visual prognosis of patients, thus reducing the number of disabling complications and sequelae, and making the full reincorporation of the patient in the society possible.

Keywords : Trauma; cataract; traumatic cataract; eye injury.

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