Preferred Practice Pattern® guidelines are developed by the Academy's H. Dunbar Hoskins
Jr., MD Center for Quality Eye Care without any external financial support. Authors and …

Bilateral congenital cataract is the most common cause of treatable childhood blindness.
Nuclear cataract is usually present at birth and is nonprogressive, whereas lamellar cataract …

Evidence-based update of the Cataract in the Adult Eye Preferred Practice Pattern®(PPP)
guidelines, describing the prevalence, risk factors, and natural history of cataract …

Aims To identify and quantify risk factors for posterior capsule rupture or vitreous loss or both
(PCR or VL or both) during cataract surgery and provide a method of composite risk …

Aim: To devise a simple, robust scoring system for assessing the risk of intraoperative
complications in patients undergoing cataract surgery. Methods: 1441 consecutive patients …

This review article deals with a potentially sight threatening complication–rupture of the
posterior capsule–during cataract surgery. Cataract surgery is the most commonly …

Any breach in the continuity of the posterior capsule is defined as a posterior capsule tear.
Posterior capsule tears can be preexisting (congenital or traumatic), spontaneous, or …

Bilateral congenital cataract is the most common cause of treatable childhood blindness.
Nuclear cataract is usually present at birth and is non‐progressive, while lamellar cataract …

PURPOSE: To report the preferred technique and the outcomes of surgery for posterior polar
cataract. SETTING: Hayashi Eye Hospital, Fukuoka, Japan. METHODS: Medical records of …

PURPOSE: To identify risk factors for intraoperative vitreous complications in resident-
performed phacoemulsification surgery. SETTING: Two urban public county hospitals …