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Takefumi Yamaguchi1, Kazuno Negishi, Murat Dogru
1Department of Ophthalmology, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan.
Purpose:
To report the changes in functional visual acuity in cataract surgery patients with good pre- and postoperative visual acuity.
Methods:
Functional visual acuity was evaluated in 13 eyes of 10 patients before and 1 month after phacoemulsification with implantation of acrylic intraocular lenses. Pre- and postoperative best spectacle-corrected visual acuities (BSCVA) were better than 20/25 in all patients. Low contrast visual acuity and Schirmer tests were also performed before and after surgery.
Results:
Mean pre- and postoperative logMAR BSCVA were -0.02 +/- 0.06 and -0.05 +/- 0.04, respectively (P > .05). Mean preoperative logMAR functional visual acuity improved from 0.29 +/- 0.17 to 0.092 +/- 0.13 postoperatively (P < .05). The visual maintenance ratio in functional visual acuity and low contrast visual acuity also improved significantly after cataract surgery (P < .05).
Conclusions:
Measurement of functional visual acuity seems to be useful in the evaluation of timing of surgery, visual quality, and changes in kinetic vision after phacoemulsification surgery.
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