Bimanual femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery compared to standard bimanual phacoemulsification: A case-control study.

Purpose: To evaluate the efficacy and safety of bimanual, low-energy femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery with 1.4-mm microincisions compared to standard bimanual phacoemulsification (bimanual microincision cataract surgery).

Design: Prospective, non-randomized comparative case series.

Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery with bimanual technique: learning curve for an experienced cataract surgeon.

Purpose: To describe the intraoperative complications and the learning curve of microincision cataract surgery assisted by femtosecond laser (FLACS) with bimanual technique performed by an experienced surgeon.

Methods: It is a prospective, observational, comparative case series. A total of 120 eyes which underwent bimanual FLACS by the same experienced surgeon during his first experience were included in the study; we considered the first 60 cases as Group A and the second 60 cases as Group B.

Postoperative diffuse opacification of a hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens: analysis of an explant.

Purpose: We describe the clinicopathological and ultrastructural features of an opaque single-piece hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lens (IOL) explanted from a patient.

Method: The main outcome of this report is the documentation of calcium deposits confirmed by surface analysis. The decrease in visual acuity was due to the opacification of the IOL.

Work-Related Eye Injuries: A Relevant Health Problem. Main Epidemiological Data from a Highly-Industrialized Area of Northern Italy.

The province of Modena is one of the most industrialized areas of Northern Italy. The medical records of the Ophthalmological Emergency Department (OED) of Modena University Hospital were studied: there were 13,470 OED accesses in 2014 and in 754 cases that an occupational eye injury occurred. The frequency of work-related eye injuries (3‰) was lower compared to other published studies, but the absolute number is still relevant, showing the need for more adequate prevention, especially in metal work, construction work, and agriculture, where the worst prognoses were observed.

Long-term analysis of IOL stability of the Lewis technique for scleral fixation.

Purpose: To demonstrate that in case of absence of capsular support intraocular lens (IOL) scleral fixation is both effective and stable over years.

Methods: A total of 13 eyes from 13 patients who underwent an IOL scleral fixation according to Lewis suturing technique between January 2001 and December 2008 were studied. Patients underwent a complete ophthalmologic evaluation.

Clinical risk management in eye outpatient surgery: a new surgical safety checklist for cataract surgery and intravitreal anti-VEGF injection.

Background: A database study to test a new model of surgical safety checklist for eye surgery in the outpatient operating room, especially for cataract surgery and intravitreal anti-VEGF injections.

Methods: WHO Surgical Safety Checklist analysis, and changes to obtain a customized surgical safety checklist for eye surgery. Testing of the new checklist in the outpatient operating room of the Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Modena during a period of 4 months (January-April 2011).

Clear corneal incisions in bimanual microincision cataract surgery: long-term wound-healing architecture.

Purpose: To evaluate bimanual microincision cataract surgery (MICS) clear corneal incision (CCI) architectural features over the long-term using anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Design: Case series.

Setting: Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Modena, Modena, Italy.

Capsulorhexis phimosis after bimanual microphacoemulsification and in-the-bag implantation of the Akreos MI60 intraocular lens.

An 80-year-old woman with corticonuclear cataract had cataract extraction by bimanual microphacoemulsification and in-the-bag implantation of the Akreos MI60 (Bausch & Lomb) intraocular lens (IOL). After 6 months, a complete capsulorhexis phimosis developed and surgery was performed to open and reduce the phimosis, with complete functional recovery. In the fellow pseudophakic eye, an acrylic hydrophobic Acri.

Bottle cork and cap injury to the eye: a review of 34 cases.

Aim: To describe our series of bottle cork and cap injuries to the eye in order to report the visual impairment and clinical outcomes observed in 34 cases over an 8-year period.

Methods: Retrospective review of the database of the Ophthalmology Institute of Modena from January 1999 to September 2007. All patients presented with closed-globe injury according to Kuhn et al.

Bimanual microphacoemulsification and Acri. Smart intraocular lens implantation combined with vitreoretinal surgery.

Purpose: To assess the efficacy and safety of bimanual microphacoemulsification combined with vitrectomy in eyes with clinically evident cataract and vitreoretinal pathology.

Setting: Institute of Ophthalmology of the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.

Methods: This prospective case series comprised 19 consecutive patients with clinically significant cataract who were scheduled for vitrectomy.

Bimanual microphacoemulsification versus coaxial miniphacoemulsification: prospective study.

Purpose: To compare the outcomes of bimanual microphacoemulsification and coaxial miniphacoemulsification and assess the potential advantages of the former over the latter.

Setting: Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Modena, Modena, Italy.

Methods: In a controlled prospective clinical trial, 100 eyes of 50 patients with nuclear or corticonuclear cataract of grade 2 to 4 on the Lens Opacities Classification System III had phacoemulsification.

Orbital actinomycosis associated with painful ophthalmoplegia. Actinomycosis of the orbit.

Purpose: To evaluate a case of orbital actinomycosis presenting as Tolosa-Hunt syndrome in a patient with a history of carcinomas of the kidney and breast.

Methods: A woman with ingravescent painful ophthalmoplegia was brought to our observation. Brain and orbital and total body CT scans showed the presence of two orbital neoformations and a miliary pattern of dissemination in the lung.

Lidocaine versus ropivacaine for topical anesthesia in cataract surgery(1).

Purpose: To assess the anesthetic efficacy and safety of topical ropivacaine versus topical lidocaine in cataract surgery.

Setting: Institute of Ophthalmology, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Modena, Italy.

Methods: This prospective controlled randomized double-blind study comprised 64 patients scheduled for planned routine cataract extraction.