Abstract

Cataract cases one of the most common treatable blindness, age related cataract is the most common cause of cataract and good surgery contributes strongly to patient quality of life

Aims: To find out the frequency of posterior capsule rupture with vitreous loss in extracapsular cataract extraction and in Phacoemulsification techniques.

Settings and Design: A retrospective (descriptive) survey.

Methods and Material: All 2103 patients enrolled are admitted to the hospital for elective cataract surgery Aso eye hospital-Sulaimani city-Kurdistan-Iraq, one day before surgery, full examination systemic and ophthalmologic examination done including slit lamp examination, Tonometry, Ultrasonography and IOL-master used for calculation of IOL power. Include all elective ECCE and phacoemulsification cataract surgeries

Statistical analysis used: Microsoft excels 2007 and 2010.

Results: Total number of cataract patients/eyes for 2009 are 2103 patients/2103 eyes, females 1052 and males 1051, represent 50.29% and 49.70% respectively, 85% of patients aged 55 years or more and 2061(98%) of cataract of senile age related type, 1918 eyes (91%) ECCE has done, 185 eyes (9%) cases phacoemulsification surgery done. There are 141 eyes with vitreous loss (6.8%) with ECCE and 10 eyes (5.4%) with phacoemulsification.

Conclusions: Posterior capsular rupture with Vitreous loss in ECCE was 6.8% and with phacoemulsification technique was 5.4%

Key-words: Extracapsular cataract extraction); Phacoemulsification; Anterior chamber intraocular lens; Posterior chamber intraocular lens); Foldable intraocularlens; intraocular pressure; Vitreous loss.

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