Reusing surgical materials for cataract surgery: an assessment of potential contamination.

Purpose: To evaluate microbiological cultures of cataract surgical devices and products that were reused for multiple cases.

Setting: Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, Tamil Nadu, India.

Design: Prospective cohort study.

Retrospective analysis of the role of anterior segment optical coherence tomography and outcomes of cataract surgery in posterior polar cataract.

Purpose: To evaluate the visual and surgical outcomes of cataract surgery in patients with posterior polar cataract (PPC) and to evaluate the benefits of preoperative anterior segment optical coherence tomography (AS-OCT).

Methods: This was a retrospective, single-center study. Case records of patients diagnosed with PPC who underwent cataract surgery either by phacoemulsification or manual small-incision cataract surgery (MSICS) from January to December 2019 were analyzed.

Outcomes of manual small incision cataract surgery in hypermature/morgagnian cataract.

Purpose: To evaluate the visual outcome and complication rate of manual small incision cataract surgery (MSICS) in hypermature morgagnian cataract (HMC).

Setting: Aravind Eye Hospital, Pondicherry, India.

Design: Retrospective, single center study.

Effect of Video Counselling Versus Verbal Counselling on Patient's experience during phacoemulsification under topical anaesthesia.

Purpose: To evaluate the impact of video and verbal counselling on patients' undergoing phacoemulsification under topical anaesthesia.

Methods: This is a prospective randomized controlled trial conducted at Aravind Eye Care System, Pondicherry, India. All patients had a 15 ​min one-on-one verbal counselling covering surgical technique, implant options, anaesthesia and payment options one day prior to surgery.

Piggyback miLOOP-assisted phacoemulsification combined with intraocular lens scaffold in hypermature cataracts.

Hypermature cataracts with liquified cortex pose a higher risk for capsular complications due to a distended capsular bag, floppy posterior capsule, and absence of any cushioning epinucleus. Disassembly of a brunescent nucleus is more difficult because of the thickened, leathery posterior plate. Relying on mechanical forces, miLOOP nucleotomy reduces ultrasound time and is assured of bisecting the posterior nuclear plate.