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¹Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi, Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı Trabzon, Prof. Dr.
²Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi, Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı Trabzon, Uz. Dr.
³Karadeniz Teknik Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Hastanesi, Göz Hastalıkları Anabilim Dalı Trabzon, Yrd. Doç. Dr. Purpose: To report the results of phacoemulsification surgeries performed in our clinic.
Materials and Methods: Data regarding to 1200 eyes of 1100 patients underwent to phacoemulsification between January 2002 to December 2007 were retrospectively evaluated. Obtained parameters included age, gender and clinical features of patients, intraoperative and postoperative complications.
Results: The mean age of the study group [592 (54%) female and 508 (46%) male patients] was 68.34±3.8 years. Among to the study group, cases with diabetes mellitus (n=249) and cases with pseudoexfoliation (n=101) showed a significantly higher intraoperative complication rates. In cases with previous uveitic history (n=42), the complication rate was not significantly different. The occurrence rate of postoperative complication in the first postoperative day and first postoperative month was 383 (32%) and 34 (2.8%), respectively. The most common postoperative complications were corneal edema in the first day and intraocular pressure elevation in the first month. While the visual acuity of 0.5 or higher was in 249 (20.8%) cases preoperatively, this level was obtained in 798 (66.7%) cases at postoperative first month. Foldable intraocular lens implantation was performed in 90.7% of the cases.
Conclusion: In this study, the success rate of phacoemulsification was found as high and reliable as reported in the literature. The phacoemulsification related complications were especially higher in cases with associate diabetes and pseudoexfoliation. Keywords : Cataract extraction, complications, phacoemulsification