Abstract

LOPEZ TORRES, Mirlanea; ACOSTA RODRIGUE, Felipe  and  HERNANDEZ DIAZ, Yaiselys. Results of the capsulotomy Nd-YAG LASER. Rev Ciencias Médicas [online]. 2009, vol.13, n.4, pp. 14-20. ISSN 1561-3194.

Cataracts are one of the main causes of blindness all over the world and its surgical removal is the only effective therapy admitted. The opacity of the posterior capsule of the lens is the most frequent post-surgical complication. This may appear months or years after surgery and is present in 20-50 % of the patients after 5 years of their surgical intervention. The posterior capsulotomy may be performed by means of manual procedures using the traditional instrumentation, or by means of laser; the current technique nowadays. Showing the results after laser capsulotomy in patients operated by the Blumenthal Technique (2007-2008) at "Abel Santamaria Cuadrado" University Hospital, in Pinar del Rio Cuba was the purpose of this paper. Age, sex, implant and non- implant of the intraocular lenses (IOL), complications during trans and post laser therapy, as well as the visual acuity before and after treatment were the variables considered, all patients were older than 60 years (80, 2 %) and in 96, 8 % an intraocular lens was placed into the posterior chamber, 65.9 % of the eyes showed transient increasing of the intraocular pressure, and only 3, 2 % showed splintering of the IOL, but needing no extraction. Complications were not so important if it is considered that 93, 2 % of the eyes reached to a visual acuity > 0, 7.

Keywords : cataractc/complications; patients.

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