COMPARISON OF VARIOUS CHOPPING TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEOTOMY DURING PHACOEMULSIFICATION IN PSEUDOEXFOLIATION SYNDROME

Dr. Santosh Kumar; Dr Bibhu Kalyan Nayak; Dr Pradeep Kumar

Volume : VII, Issue : I, January - 2018

COMPARISON OF VARIOUS CHOPPING TECHNIQUES FOR NUCLEOTOMY DURING PHACOEMULSIFICATION IN PSEUDOEXFOLIATION SYNDROME

Dr. Santosh Kumar, Dr Bibhu Kalyan Nayak, Dr Pradeep Kumar

Abstract :

: It has been described that pseudoexfoliation is the most common cause of lenticular instability affecting mainly the population beyond the seventh decade. As a result of the lens instability associated with this disease, the surgical management is always a challenge for the operating surgeon. After due considerations of the peculiar nature of disease process and the anticipated surgical hurdles, we embarked on a study to select the best possible method of phaco–nucleotomy in these cases. Three techniques of nucleotomy namely vertical chop, stop and chop and the horizontal chop were employed after randomly distributing 60 patients in three groups of 20 patients each. We concluded and recommend that amongst the three chopping techniques, the vertical chop and stop and chop is the one preferred over the horizontal chop.