title: Assessment of anterior chamber parameters after cataract surgery by Galilei dual Scheimpflug analyzer.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To quantify the difference between anterior chamber parameters determined by the Galilei dual Scheimpflug analyzer after uneventful cataract surgery in normotensive eyes.
  
  
  METHODS
  In this study, 39 eyes of 30 patients (11 men and 19 women) who had uneventful cataract surgery with phacoemulsification were evaluated preoperatively, and at 1 month postoperatively with the Galilei. We investigated the measurements including anterior chamber depth (ACD), anterior chamber angle (ACA), anterior chamber volume (ACV), central corneal thickness (CCT), and the 3-, 5-, and 7-mm corneal thickness (CT) preoperatively and postoperatively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The differences between ACD (P=0.01), ACA (P=0.07), ACV (P=0.01), and 7-mm CT (P=0.01), and intraocular pressure (P=0.03) were statistically significant after the first month of phacoemulsification. However, the differences between CCT (P=0.60), 3-mm CT (P=0.75), and 5-mm (P=0.17) CT were not statistically significant.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  After the first month of cataract surgery, a significant increase was observed in ACD, ACV, ACA, and 7-mm CT parameters, which were practically determined by a new noncontact Scheimpflug imagining system.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology (R.Y., S.A.), Pamukkale University Medical School, Denizli, Turkey; Department of Ophthalmology (E.G.), Erciş State Hospital, Van, Turkey; Department of Ophthalmology (B.F.G.), Turgut Ozal University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey; Department of Ophthalmology (F.U.), Trabzon Arakli Bayram Halil Devlet Hastanesi, Trabzon, Turkey; and Department of Ophthalmology (I.F.H.), Gazi University Medical School, Ankara, Turkey.
authors.forename: Ramazan
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Yağcı
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Güler
authors.forename: Feyza
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Uzun
authors.forename: Betül F
authors.initials: BF
authors.lastname: Gürağaç
authors.forename: Semra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Acer
authors.forename: İbrahim F
authors.initials: İF
authors.lastname: Hepşen
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000473:pathology* / Q000503:physiopathology; D002386:Cataract / Q000150:complications / Q000503:physiopathology; D019781:Corneal Topography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007429:Intraocular Pressure / Q000502:physiology; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D010781:Photography / Q000295:instrumentation*; D011446:Prospective Studies; D014065:Tonometry, Ocular / Q000295:instrumentation*