Original scientific paper

Pseudoexfoliation Syndrome and Cataract Surgery by Phacoemulsification

Mladen Bušić
Snježana Kaštelan

Abstract

Pseudoexfoliation syndrome is a systemic age-related disease in which abnormal extracellular material is produced
and accumulates in many ocular tissues. Its ocular manifestations involve all of the structures of the anterior segment
as well as conjunctiva and orbital structures. The presence of pseudoexfoliation should alert the physicians to the increased
risks associated during and after cataract surgery. Increasing awareness of this condition are important in the
detection and preoperative determination of patients inclined to be at greater risk for complications during surgery.
Data regarding the rate of complications during phacoemulsification suggest a lower complication rate than with
exstracapsular extraction but still greater than in eyes without pseudoexfoliation. Despite the existence of a higher
number of intraoperative and postoperative complications, experience with the phacoemulsification technique together
with the improvement of the apparatus and instruments used enable similar results to obtained in eyes with pseudoexfoliation
syndrome as in eyes without this pathology.

Keywords

phacoemulsification; cataract; surgery; pseudoexfoliation syndrome

Hrčak ID:

27882

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/27882

Publication date:

20.6.2005.

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