Colour contrast sensitivity with different intraocular lens materials in the right and left eyes in same day surgery.

Purpose: To study possible differences in colour contrast sensitivity between different intraocular lens (IOL) materials with consecutive same day cataract surgery performed in the right and left eyes.

Methods: Central colour contrast sensitivity was measured with a computer graphics system along the protan, deutan and tritan axes. Thirty-four patients with cataract were studied.

Postoperative aphakia in modern cataract surgery: part 2: detailed analysis of the cause of aphakia and the visual outcome.

Purpose: To study the incidence of aphakia after cataract surgery, the surgical complications that can lead to it, and the visual outcome.

Setting: Six community-run eye clinics participating in the Swedish National Cataract Register.

Methods: Data on cataract extractions were collected prospectively from 1997 through 2001.

Postoperative aphakia in modern cataract surgery: part 1: analysis of incidence and risks based on 5-year data from the Swedish National Cataract Register.

Purpose: To study the incidence of aphakia after cataract extraction and evaluate the relative risk for this outcome in subgroups of patients based on preoperative conditions.

Setting: Sixty-two community-run or private clinics participating in the Swedish National Cataract Register.

Methods: Data on cataract extractions were collected prospectively from 1997 through 2001.

Bilateral same day phacoemulsification: 220 cases retrospectively reviewed.

Background/aims: The relative frequency, basic patient data, results, and complications of planned same day bilateral phacoemulsification were studied from April 1999 to May 2001 at the Department of Ophthalmology, Linköping University Hospital, Sweden.

Methods: Retrospective study of patient records (n=220) regarding preoperative and postoperative visual acuity, applied indications, concurrent disease, preoperative, peroperative, and postoperative complications, and number of unplanned postoperative visits. The monthly rate of bilateral phacoemulsification to all cataract procedures was monitored.

Cataract surgery and quality of life in patients with age related macular degeneration.

Background: The coexistence of cataract and age related macular degeneration (AMD) is not unusual, especially in the very elderly. The outcome of cataract surgery in these cases depends on the effect of AMD on vision. In this study the authors have compared the outcome of cataract patients with AMD to that of cataract patients with no vision threatening ocular comorbidity, and analysed possible predictors of good or poor outcome.