Relationship Between Tamsulosin Use and Surgical Complications of Cataract Surgery in Elderly Patients: Population-Based Cohort Study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Although several previous studies have investigated the relationship between tamsulosin use and surgical complications of cataract surgery, no population-based cohort study has been conducted for the Asian population. We aimed to investigate the relationship between tamsulosin use and surgical complications of cataract surgery in the Korean elderly population.

Methods

This nationwide population-based retrospective cohort study included elderly patients (≥60 years) who had undergone cataract surgery in the period from 2003 to 2015. Baseline characteristics were age, sex, income, residence, and systemic, and ocular comorbidities (glaucoma, myopia, eye trauma, diabetes mellitus with ophthalmic manifestations, severe cataract, age-related macular degeneration). The expos

SUBMITTER: Kwak J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9160597 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature