Sunita Agarwal, Athiya Agarwal, Amar Agarwal, T R Indumathy, Sandeep Agarwal.
No Injection, No Stitch, No Pad Cataract Surgery Technique.
Pak J Ophthalmol Jan ;14(1):22-7.

One thousand (1000) eyes with cataracts were operated on under topical anaesthesia through a 2.8mm temporal clear corneal incision and phacoemulsification with foldable intraocular lens implantation. In all cases only plate haptic foldable posterior chamber intraocular lenses were used through the injector system. Preoperative cases of astigmatism were not considered in this study. No peribulbar or pinpoint anaesthesia was given nor any stitch applied during the operation. The patients walked out of the operation theatre without a pad. On the first postoperative day, out of the thousand eyes operated on, 560 eyes (56%) had 619 visual acuity (unaided) and 480 eyes (48%) improved to 616 with pinhole. The visual acuity (aided) was found to be 616 in 560 eyes (56%) after one week and in 760 eyes (76%) after one month. Astigmatism was found to be in the range of 0.5-1.0 diopter in 440 eyes (44%) after one week and in 520 eyes (52%) after one month. The shift in astigmatism ranged from 0 to 0.25 D in 720 eyes (72%).

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