Efficacy of intracameral antibiotics following manual small incision cataract surgery in reducing the rates of endophthalmitis: A meta-analysis.

Background: Manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) is a widely used technique for cataract surgery in the developing world. Higher rates of postoperative endophthalmitis have been reported with this technique compared with phaco-emulsification. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of prophylactic intracameral (IC) antibiotics in reducing the rates of postoperative endophthalmitis following MSICS.

Outcome of adjustment for posterior corneal curvature in toric intraocular lens calculation and selection.

Purpose: To evaluate the accuracy of the cylinder power choice and the astigmatic refractive outcome for toric intraocular lenses (IOLs), the cylinder power of which was calculated using the Goggin nomogram that allows for the likely effect of posterior corneal astigmatism.

Setting: The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Adelaide, Australia.

Design: Observational case series.

Adjustment of anterior corneal astigmatism values to incorporate the likely effect of posterior corneal curvature for toric intraocular lens calculation.

Purpose: To establish if average refractive overcorrection or undercorrection of corneal astigmatism based on the "rule" of the astigmatism occurs if toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) are calculated on the basis of anterior corneal measurements, and to calculate an adjustment for individual eyes to avoid this systematic error.

Methods: One hundred forty-three consecutive eyes of 115 patients underwent phacoemulsification with IOL powers calculated using anterior corneal curvature data alone. Eyes were grouped as either "with-the-rule" or "against-the-rule" on the basis of the steep anterior corneal meridian.

Prevalence of chronic ocular complications in Stevens-Johnson syndrome and toxic epidermal necrolysis.

Purpose: The aim of this study is to identify and grade the severity of chronic ocular complications in patients who suffered from Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) and toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN) treated in Cape Town, South Africa.

Methods: A total of 54 patients with SJS or TEN for 6 months or longer were examined. The ocular complications were classified into corneal, eyelid and conjunctival complications.

Manual small incision extracapsular cataract surgery in Australia.

Background: Examination of the results and describing the technique of manual small incision extracapsular cataract extraction on patients with advanced cataracts in urban Australia.

Design: A descriptive case series.

Participants: Thirty-eight patients at three public hospitals, one tertiary and two secondary ophthalmic units in urban Australia.

Poststreptococcal syndrome uveitis in South African children.

Objective: To describe the demographics, clinical features and management of the largest case series to date on poststreptococcal syndrome uveitis (PSU), a newly recognised immune-mediated response to group A β-haemolytic streptococcus infection.

Methods: Case notes of all patients presenting to the Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital, Cape Town, with serologically confirmed PSU between 2004 and 2010, were retrospectively reviewed.

Results: A total of 22 cases were identified.