The goal of this study was to create and promote a type of chatbot or conversational app, for patients who need cataract surgery and to evaluate its acceptability....
Multicentric prospective clinical study in two phases. Phase I : distribution of a questionnaire of 20 questions (evaluating patients' knowledge about cataracts and cataract surgery and their expectat...
One hundred and six initial questionnaires were collected. The patients were mostly women (56.6 %), aged 60 to 79 years (81 %), retired (77.4 %), with no high school diploma (33.0 %), had never used a...
This study shows the importance of information for cataract surgery patients. The creation of a chatbot for patients undergoing cataract surgery appears to be relevant in achieving this goal....
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is an inherited bilateral retinal degenerative disease with an incidence of 1 in 4000 people. RP affects more than 1 million individuals worldwide. Although night blindness a...
Cataracts are a disease that is usually caused by aging and involve the irreversible degeneration of the lens material. On the other hand, transient cataracts have also been reported, mainly due to sy...
A 42-year-old woman presented with distorted vision in her right eye. The patient was taking medication for diabetes, and her blood sugar level was well-controlled....
Upon examination, her uncorrected visual acuity and best-corrected visual acuity were 20/70 in her right eye. Slit lamp microscopy revealed fine, feathery, and streak-like posterior subcapsular opacit...
Close observation for one week without any intervention....
After one week, most of the posterior subcapsular opacities disappeared, and the uncorrected visual acuity and best-corrected visual acuity in the right eye improved to 20/40 and 20/30, respectively....
This case report demonstrates that unilateral posterior subcapsular cataracts may spontaneously regress in patients with normal blood glucose levels. Therefore, it is important to check whether catara...
To determine the proportion of patients consenting to resident participation in cataract surgery and to identify factors predictive of consent....
Prospective cross-sectional study....
The 330 consecutive patients referred for cataract evaluation from February-April 2021 to 3 surgeons at a tertiary care referral centre in London, Ontario....
Using a standardized disclosure script, individuals were asked about resident participation in their cataract surgery. A phone survey and medical record review were conducted to obtain clinical and de...
Responses were received from 279 individuals (85% response rate), with a mean age of 71.7 ± 8.6 years, and 113 were female. The consent rate was 71%. Prior negative experience with any medical trainee...
Patients should be explicitly asked about resident involvement. Negative experiences can make individuals reluctant to have learners involved in their future care. Patient education describing the app...
Childhood cataract is a complex condition requiring longitudinal care, including early diagnosis, timely referral to a specialist, early surgical intervention, and dedicated postoperative care. Adhere...
Management of subluxated cataracts is challenging, especially in cases with more than 5 clock hours of subluxation. Capsular bag stabilising devices are of utmost importance in these cases. We report ...
Parkinson's disease (PD) causes also visual dysfunction including decreased visual acuity, even already at the prodromal phase of disease. Still, it has been suggested that persons with PD may be less...
Data from nationwide register-based Finnish Study on Parkinson's Disease (N=22189) was used. This study included 17546 persons with PD diagnosed in 1996-2015 and 114817 comparison persons who were at ...
The incidence rate of cataract surgeries was 20.4/1000 and 18.7/1000 person-years (PY) for persons with or without PD, respectively. Before PD diagnosis, rate of surgeries was higher in persons with P...
Diagnosis of PD does not decrease the incidence of cataract surgeries. Conversely, the incidence may be increased prior to PD diagnosis, probably due to other eye diseases and prodromal symptoms of PD...
To establish the incidence of acute intraoperative suprachoroidal haemorrhage (AISH) during cataract surgery and identify the risk factors for this complication....
Data from the Royal College of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database was analysed. During the 11-year study period, from 01/04/2010 to 31/03/2021, 709 083 operations performed on 498 170 p...
AISH occurred in 0.03% (204/709 083, approximately 1 in 3 500) of eligible cataract operations performed during the study period. Posterior capsule rupture was the risk factor most strongly associated...
The risk of AISH during modern cataract surgery is approximately 1 in 3 500 and is associated with a significant increase in the risk of vision loss should it occur. Posterior capsule rupture is the r...
To evaluate the association of capsular dye and/or a pupil expansion device (PED) usage on the rate of major complication in resident-performed cataract extraction....
Resident cataract surgeries between 2016 and 2019 were included. The primary outcomes were anterior or posterior vitrectomy (AVx and PPVx). Cases were grouped by the use of a PED and/or capsular stain...
Of the 1,348 cases, 371 (27.5%) documented capsular staining ("Dye-only"), 91 (6.8%) required pupil expansion ("PED-only"), and 100 (7.4%) used both capsular stain and a PED ("Both"). The remainder of...
Resident-performed cataract surgery frequently required capsular staining and/or a PED, and intuitively, these cases had a higher overall complication rate compared to routine cases. However, the use ...
To validate the Easee web-based tool for the assessment of visual acuity in patients who underwent cataract surgery....
University Eye Clinic Maastricht, Maastricht, the Netherlands....
Prospective method comparison study....
Subjects aged between 18 and 69 years who underwent cataract surgery on 1 or both eyes at the Maastricht University Medical Center+ were eligible to participate in this study. The uncorrected (UDVA) a...
46 subjects with 75 operated eyes were included in this study. The difference of the UDVA between the web-based tool and ETDRS or Snellen was -0.05 ± 0.10 logMAR ( P < .001 [0.15; -0.26]) and -0.04 ± ...
The web-based tool was validated for the assessment of visual acuity in patients who underwent cataract surgery and showed clinically acceptable outcomes in up to 88% of patients. Most of the particip...
