Cataract extraction without prophylactic treatment in patients with severe factor XI deficiency.

Purpose: To assess the risks of intraoperative and postoperative bleeding associated with cataract extraction without prophylactic treatment in patients with severe factor XI (FXI) deficiency.

Design: Prospective interventional case series.

Setting: Single institute.

Alcohol- vs hypertonic saline-assisted laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy.

Objective: To evaluate the predictability and safety of hypertonic saline (5% sodium chloride) [correction]-assisted laser-assisted subepithelial keratectomy (HS-LASEK) vs 20% alcohol-assisted LASEK (A-LASEK).

Setting: American Laser Medical Center, Rishon Le-Zion, Israel.

Methods: Fifty-two consecutive eyes (26 patients) were randomized to HS-LASEK (30 eyes) and A-LASEK (22 eyes) groups.

Contrast sensitivity after wave front-guided LASIK.

Purpose: To compare the effects on contrast sensitivity of wave front-guided (WFG) versus standard LASIK.

Design: Prospective, nonrandomized, comparative clinical study.

Participants: Twenty-four eyes of 13 consecutive patients (mean age, 25.

Comparison of intraocular pressure profiles during cataract surgery by phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction.

Background And Objective: In view of reports of fluctuations in intraocular pressure (IOP) during phacoemulsification, real-time IOP during small-incision, manual extracapsular cataract extraction (ECCE) and phacoemulsification was measured to determine the effect of anterior chamber maintainer infusion on intraoperative IOP dynamics.

Patients And Methods: A comparative study of IOP during cataract surgery was conducted by these two methods in 29 patients. An anterior chamber maintainer infused balanced salt solution continuously into the eye throughout ECCE.