Intraoperative and early postoperative complications of manual sutureless cataract extraction.
OBJECTIVE
To determine the intraoperative and early postoperative complications of manual sutureless cataract extraction.


METHODS
Case series.


METHODS
Redo Eye Hospital, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from January 2009 to December 2010.


METHODS
Three hundred patients of cataract through purposive non-probability sampling were selected. The patients underwent manual sutureless cataract surgery (MSCS) by single experienced surgeon and intraoperative complications were documented. The surgical technique was modified to deal with any intraoperative complications accordingly. Patients were examined on the first postoperative day and on the first postoperative week for any postoperative complications. The data was entered in Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) version 13.0 and the results were calculated in frequencies.


RESULTS
Among the 300 cases, 81.3% surgeries went uneventful whereas 18.6% had some complication. The common intraoperative complications were superior button-hole formation in 5%; posterior capsular rent in 5% and premature entry with iris prolapse in 3% cases. Postoperatively, the commonly encountered complications were striate keratopathy in 9.6% and hyphema 9%. At first week follow-up, 4% had striate keratopathy and 0.6% had hyphema. Striate keratopathy resolved with topical medication on subsequent follow-up. A total of 9 cases (3%) underwent second surgery: 2 cases for lens matter wash, 2 cases for hyphema and 5 cases needed suturing of wound for shallow anterior chamber due to wound leak.


CONCLUSIONS
Superior button-hole formation, posterior capsular rent and premature entry were the common intraoperative complications of MSCS whereas the common early postoperative complications were striate keratopathy and hyphema.
Department of Ophthalmology, IIMC-T Pakistan Railways Hospital, Rawalpindi.
Yasir
Y
Iqbal
Department of Ophthalmology, IIMC-T Pakistan Railways Hospital, Rawalpindi.
Sohail
S
Zia
Department of Ophthalmology, IIMC-T Pakistan Railways Hospital, Rawalpindi.
Aneeq Ullah
AU
Baig Mirza
D000368:Aged; D002386:Cataract; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006988:Hyphema / Q000453:epidemiology; D007431:Intraoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular / Q000379:methods; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010154:Pakistan / Q000453:epidemiology; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000453:epidemiology*; D011184:Postoperative Period; D012086:Reoperation; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014792:Visual Acuity