[Clinical index for prediction of visual acuity after cataract surgery--personal experience]

The authors are giving an account of their own experience with the clinical index for prediction of the visual acuity after cataract surgery. The index uses the following data - age, visual acuity before operation, number of regularly taken drugs and frequency of reading before operation. In 171 eyes of patients operated on account of cataract by different techniques (the patients were not specially selected and some suffered from other eye diseases), the authors found a close agreement between the vision predicted by means of the clinical index and the final visual acuity after operation. Agreement was recorded in 68%. The authors recommend the clinical index for more extensive clinical tests.