Seven-year trends in cataract surgery indications and quality of outcomes at Aravind Eye Hospitals, India
| Autor: | Aravind Haripriya, Ashok Vardhan S, Ravilla D. Ravindran, Ganesh-Babu B. Subburaman, Thulasiraj Ravilla, Sachin Gupta |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity genetic structures medicine.medical_treatment India Uncorrected visual acuity Cataract Extraction Cataract Article Retrospective database 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Postoperative Complications Lens Implantation Intraocular medicine Humans Retrospective Studies Phacoemulsification business.industry Outcome measures Surgical procedures Cataract surgery eye diseases Hospitals Surgery Ophthalmology Treatment Outcome 030221 ophthalmology & optometry sense organs medicine.symptom business Complication 030217 neurology & neurosurgery |
| Zdroj: | Eye (Lond) |
| ISSN: | 1476-5454 |
| Popis: | PURPOSE: To report trends in cataract surgery indications, visual acuity outcomes, complication rates and reoperation rates at ten Aravind Eye Hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India. METHODS: In this retrospective database study we analyzed seven years of data of cataract surgeries at Aravind during January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2018. Our main outcome measures were preoperative and 1-month postoperative uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA); and rates of intraoperative complications and reoperations. We performed Cochran–Armitage trend tests. RESULTS: In 1.86 million eyes that underwent cataract surgery, the percentage of eyes undergoing phacoemulsification (PE) showed an increasing trend (p |
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