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Surgical peculiarities in type II diabetic cataracts during phacoemulsification
Sudarshan Khokhar1, Mayank S Pangtey, Ambarish Soni
1Dr Rajendra Prasad Centre for Ophthalmic Sciences, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
Background And Objective:
To record the surgical peculiarities during phacoemulsification in patients with type II diabetes.
Patients And Methods:
A retrospective, noncomparative analysis. Data from 58 eyes of 43 patients having significant cataract with type II diabetes of more than 5 years' duration who underwent phacoemulsification were considered. Intraoperative difficulties and complications were noted and analyzed.
Results:
In 24.13% (n = 14) of the cases, the nucleus could not be divided after initial trenching. The management of the nucleus and the cortex required modifications in the surgical technique.
Conclusions:
Type II diabetic cataracts were sticky and leathery in approximately one-quarter of the cases.