COMPARISON OF POSTERIOR CAPSULE OPACIFICATION BETWEEN HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SINGLE–PIECE ACRYLIC INTRAOCULAR LENSES AFTER CATARACT EXTRACTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING PHACOEMULSIFICATION

Dr.Harpreet Kaur; Dr.Rajesh Kumar; Dr.Karamjit Singh; Dr.Anand Aggarwal

Volume : VIII, Issue : VI, June - 2018

COMPARISON OF POSTERIOR CAPSULE OPACIFICATION BETWEEN HYDROPHILIC AND HYDROPHOBIC SINGLE–PIECE ACRYLIC INTRAOCULAR LENSES AFTER CATARACT EXTRACTION IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING PHACOEMULSIFICATION

Dr. Harpreet Kaur, Dr. Rajesh Kumar, Dr. Karamjit Singh, Dr. Anand Aggarwal

Abstract :

Cataract is the commonest cause of preventable and curable blindness.Phacoemulsification with IOL implantation is the surgical technique of choice for treatment of cataract.Posterior capsule opacification is the most common late complication of surgery. IOL material has modest effect on opacification rates:hydrogel IOLs have the highest rate followed by PMMA,then silicon and hydrophobic acrylic material with the lowest rate. The present study was done to know the outcome of phacoemulsification surgery in cataract and to compare posterior capsule opacification rates after implantating hydrophilic and hydrophobic single piece acrylic intraocular lenses.PCO rate was 16% in hydrophilic acrylic intraocular lenses as compared to 4% in hydrophobic acrylic intraocular lenses 6 months after surgery. The advent of newer lens materials like hydrophobic lenses can reduce the late postoperative complication PCO significantly and help in achieving emmetropic vision.