The impact of surgeon's experience and sex on the incidence of cystoid macular edema after uneventful cataract surgery.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To assess the rate of pseudophakic cystoid macular edema (pCME) in uneventful cataract surgery in surgeons in training vs experienced surgeons and to analyze the rate of pCME according to surgeon's sex.

Methods

Medical reports post phacoemulsification between 2010 and 2018 at the Department of Ophthalmology, Medical University of Graz, Austria, were reviewed for pCME. A running lifetime number of preceding cataract surgeries was used to express hands-on experience. A cut-off number of 300 surgeries was defined to distinguish between surgeons in training and experienced surgeons. Outcome parameters were incidence of pCME, patient's sex and age, laterality of eye, coexistence of pseudoexfoliation syndrome (PEX), duration of surgery and surgeon's sex.

Results

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SUBMITTER: List W 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9794095 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature