Safety of Trypan Blue Capsule Staining to Corneal Endothelium in Patients with Diabetic Retinopathy.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To study the potential corneal endothelial cell toxicity of trypan blue (TB) when used for phacoemulsification to stain the anterior capsule in patients with diabetic retinopathy.

Methods

This was a single-center, prospective, randomized, individual cohort study. One eye in each patient with diabetic retinopathy underwent phacoemulsification without trypan blue capsule staining (control eye), while the other eye underwent phacoemulsification with trypan blue capsule staining (study eye). Both eyes underwent intraocular lens implantation. Preoperative and four-week postoperative quantitative and qualitative morphometric endothelial cell analyses of the cornea were performed using noncontact specular microscopy.

Results

There were no significant differences in e

SUBMITTER: Abdelmotaal H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6458884 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature