Prevalence of macular abnormalities identified only by optical coherence tomography in Brazilian patients with cataract.

Purpose: To assess the prevalence of macular abnormalities not suspected by the biomicroscopic fundus examination and identified only by macular optical coherence tomography (OCT) in the preoperative evaluation for cataract surgery in a large series of Brazilian patients.

Setting: Private practice, Recife, Brazil.

Design: Retrospective case series.

Efficacy of preoperative nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug and the re-dilation technique in minimizing miosis after femtosecond laser in cataract surgery.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy of using a nonste-roidal anti-inflammatory drug preoperatively and of applying the re-dilation technique when necessary to minimize pupil size variation when comparing the degree of mydriasis before femtosecond laser pretreatment with that at the beginning of phacoemulsification.

Methods: This retrospective study included patients who underwent cataract surgery using the LenSx (Alcon Laboratories, Inc., Fort Worth, TX).