Images created in a model eye during simulated cataract surgery can be the basis for images perceived by patients during cataract surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To evaluate the images created in a model eye during simulated cataract surgery.

Patients and methods

This study was conducted as a laboratory investigation and interventional case series. An artificial opaque lens, a clear intraocular lens (IOL), or an irrigation/aspiration (I/A) tip was inserted into the 'anterior chamber' of a model eye with the frosted posterior surface corresponding to the retina. Video images were recorded of the posterior surface of the model eye from the rear during simulated cataract surgery. The video clips were shown to 20 patients before cataract surgery, and the similarity of their visual perceptions to these images was evaluated postoperatively.

Results

The images of the moving lens fragments and I/A tip and the insertion of the

SUBMITTER: Inoue M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4094814 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature