[Cataract surgery in Romania--2003].
OBJECTIVE
to evaluate cataract surgery performed in Romania analyzing: --the number of cataract surgery performed in 2003; --the surgical technique used: intracapsular extraction, extracapsular extraction, phacoemulsification; --the number and type of intraocular lenses used; --the number of ophthalmologists that performed cataract surgery;


METHODS
--a questionnaire was sent to all ophthalmologists which do cataract surgery.


RESULTS
--38,000 surgeries for cataract were performed in 2003; --the surgical techniques used were : Phacoemulsification (18,000 cases), classic extracapsular extraction ( 19,000 cases) and intracapsular extraction (1000 cases); --28,500 rigid and 8,000 foldable intraocular lenses were implanted; - 223 ophthalmologists perform cataract surgery in Romania.
Zemba
M
M
Spitalul Clinic de Urgentă Militar Central.
Filip
M
M
Bobeico
Veronica
V
Andrei
Sorana
S
Anton
Oana
O
D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods* / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D012383:Romania; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires