[State-of-the-art cataract surgery and intraocular optical correction].

The paper provides current knowledge on cataract epidemiology worldwide and in the Russian Federation, including issues of cataractogenesis and prevention. An overview of medical equipment for preoperative and intraoperative diagnostics is provided. Key aspects of the conventional ultrasonic phacoemulsification method as well as the most marked trends in correction of aphakia with intraocular lenses and in design of the latter are presented.

[The effect of yellow filter intraocular lens on the macula after cataract phacoemulsification in patients with age macular degeneration].

Macula changes diagnosed with optical coherence tomography (OCT) within a year after cataract phacoemulsification (PE) with intraocular lens implantation with and without yellow filter are presented. 32 patients (36 eyes) with early stages of age macular degeneration (AMD) were included into the experimental group and 35 patients (36 eyes) served as controls. IOLs with yellow filter were implanted in 21 eyes, and in 15 cases IOLs without filter were used in each group.

[The problems of cataract surgery and intraocular correction: Russian school achievements and modern trends].

The development of the safest and, at the same time, efficient methods of cataract surgery, is not only a topical task of medical science and practice, but also, taking the demographic situation into account, a solution to a social problem. The article describes the main achievements of academician S. N.

[Surgical correction of presbyopia with multifocal diffractive intraocular lenses].

The authors analyzed the results of binocular refractive lens exchange with a pseudoaccomodative AcrySof ReSTOR multifocal diffractive intraocular lens (IOL) in 24 patients (48 eyes) aged 40 to 61 years. Preoperative hyperopic refraction ranged from 1.0 to 6.

[Analysis of reasons for preventing relapses after operations on the lacrimal ducts].

Wrong decision on timely elimination of an abnormality at the level of the lacrimal ducts, irrational surgical treatment policy, and postoperative management in patients with abnormal parameters of the lacrimal system lead to recurrent epiphora. The polymorphism of the causes underlying the development of an unstable lacrimal film requires that individual rehabilitative treatment policy should be chosen for victims.