COMPARISON OF POSTOPERATIVE CORNEAL ASTIGMATISM IN PHACOEMULSIFICATION AND MANUAL SMALL INCISION CATARACT SURGERY

NAYANTARA NAIR; DIVYA N.; V. PANIMALAR; A. VEERAMANI; BINDU BHASKARAN

doi:10.22159/ijcpr.2020v12i6.40295

Authors

NAYANTARA NAIR Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
DIVYA N. Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
V. PANIMALAR Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
A. VEERAMANI Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
BINDU BHASKARAN Department of Ophthalmology, Saveetha Medical College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22159/ijcpr.2020v12i6.40295

Keywords:

Cataract, Superior incision, Superotemporal incision, SIA, 3 mo, 28 mm incision, 55 mm incision

Abstract

Objective: Globally a significant proportion of treatable blindness is caused by cataract, especially in India and southeast Asia. Treatment of cataract is surgical correction with intraocular lens implantation. The main drawback of surgical correction is induction of postoperative astigmatism in patients. The aim of this study was to compare the degree of astigmatism in manual small incision cataract surgery and phacoemulsification 3 mo postoperatively

Methods: The study was a retrospective case study on postoperative corneal astigmatism after cataract surgery. It was conducted in a tertiary care hospital in Thandalam, Tamil Nadu. A total of 100 patients were selected and divided into two groups, group A (=50) underwent phacoemulsification and group B (=50) underwent manual small incision cataract surgery. Preoperative astigmatic status of the patients was noted from patient records. Both groups were evaluated 3 mo postoperatively using automated keratometry. The data collected was analyzed using Microsoft Excel Independent T test, p<0.05 was considered statistically significant. Power of the study was 80% with an alpha error of 5%.

Results: Mean postoperative astigmatism at 3 mo was 0.91±0.255D and 0.34±0.110D due to manual small incision cataract surgery and phacoemulsification, respectively.

Conclusion: Postoperative astigmatism was greater in manual small incision cataract surgery than phacoemulsification. Improvement in preoperative astigmatism was seen in patients who underwent superotemporal incision phacoemulsification

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