- The Effect of Extracapsular Cataract Extraction and Posterior Chamber Lens Implantation on Intraocular Pressure.
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Soon Cheol Cha, Kyoo Won Lee
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Yeungnam Univ J Med. 1994;11(2):277-283. Published online December 31, 1994
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.1994.11.2.277
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- We studied the change in intraocular pressure (IOP) in 15 consecutive cataract patients who underwent extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens implantation between Feb. 1993 and Apr. 1993 to evaluate the effect of this surgery on postoperative IOP. To evaluate the clinical usefulness of non-contact tonometer, the intraocular pressures were measured with Kowa non-contact tonometer (TM-2000, Japan) as well as Goldmann applanation tonometer. There was a decrease in IOP of 3.4±2.9mmHg (p<0.001) 3 months after this surgery and the intraocular pressure differences between pseudophakic eyes and contralateral phakin eyes at 3 months postoperatively were 2.4±3.8mmHg (p<0.05). The correlation coefficient between non-contact tonometer and Goldmann tonometer was 0.8876 (p=0.001) in the postoperative 76 eyes. Therefore, out results suggest that extracapsular cataract extraction and posterior chamber lens implantation alone can be a useful surgical method in cataract patient with ocular hypertension, and non-contact tonometer was relatively accurate in measuring the postoperative intraocular pressure.
- Intraocular Pressure Changes in the Uneventful Extra-capsular Cataract Extraction and Extra-capsular Cataract Extraction with Vitreous Loss followed by Anterior Chamber Lens Implantation.
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Young Hoon Park, Kyoo Won Lee, Duk Kee Hahn
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Yeungnam Univ J Med. 1989;6(1):81-86. Published online June 30, 1989
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.12701/yujm.1989.6.1.81
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- These days the posterior chamber lens implantation following the extracapsular cataract extraction has become the standard procedure except those patients who cannot take it in one reason or another. In past, however, the anterior chamber lens implantation was popular for sometimes. Even now in those patient complicated by vitreous loss, the anterior chamber lens implantation following anterior vitrectomy is indicated in some cases. We have become interested in the difference of the intraocular pressure change in the patients who underwent the uneventful extra-capsular cataract extraction followed by anterior chamber lens implantation in routine manner and in those whose extra-capsular cataract extraction were complicated by vitreous loss and eventually needed the anterior vitrectomy before the anterior chamber lens implantation. We reviewed the medical records of 15 cases of the former group and 11 cases of the latter one in 1986 through 1988. There was some difference in the postoperative pressure in the two groups, but it was not statistically significant.
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