Royal College of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database study of cataract surgery: report 8, cohort analysis of the relationship between intraoperative complications of cataract surgery and axial length.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To describe the relationships between axial length and intraoperative complications in patients undergoing cataract surgery.

Design

Cohort analysis of the Royal College of Ophthalmologists' National Ophthalmology Database (RCOphth NOD).

Setting

110 National Health Service Trusts in England, Health Boards in Wales, Independent Sector Treatment Centres and Guernsey.

Participants

820 354 patients, aged 18 years or older, undergoing cataract surgery. Eligible operations were those from centres with at least 50 operations with a recorded axial length measurement and age at surgery between 1 April 2010 and 31 August 2019.

Interventions

Phacoemulsification where the primary intention was cataract surgery alone.

Outcome measures

Posterior capsu

SUBMITTER: Day AC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9396167 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature