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MARRERO RODRIGUEZ, Ernesto; SANCHEZ VEGAS, Osmar  y  VALDES BOZA, Dania. Senile cataract operation with the Blumenthal technique in elderly from Venezuelan municipality of San Francisco. MEDISAN [online]. 2010, vol.14, n.6, pp.793-798. ISSN 1029-3019.

A descriptive and cross-sectional study was carried out in 100 patients operated on for senile cataract (an eye in each case) with the M. Blumenthal technique in San Francisco municipality, Zulia (Venezuela), from February to August 2007. There was prevalence of cataract in 60-69 year-old females, visual acuity below 0.1 and mixed cataract. Visual improvement was obtained between the unit of vision and 0.3 in almost all the patients of the series, and the number of complications (with predominance of hyphema) was low, which revealed that this technique was effective for the surgical treatment of the abovementioned condition.

Palabras clave : cataract; mixed cataract; elderly; M. Blumenthal's technique; hyphema.

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