Hydro-chop technique for soft lenses.
Chopping techniques were initially developed to expend the least amount of phacoemulsification power inside the eye to remove a lens and to improve efficiency. Soft nuclei are not generally conducive to traditional chopping techniques and have required alternate, energy-consuming techniques, such as sculpting, to be removed. We describe a modified chopping technique that can be used to mechanically cleave soft nuclei into distinct fragments before phaco power is required, reducing total power and energy expended in the eye.
Braga-Mele
Rosa
R
Department of Ophthalmology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. rbragamele@rogers.com
Khan
Baseer U
BU
D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000601:surgery*; D018918:Phacoemulsification / Q000379:methods*