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Monocular patients had more complications following combined cataract-glaucoma surgery

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FLORENCE, Italy — Combined surgery for glaucoma and cataract was associated with a higher incidence of postoperative complications among monocular patients than binocular patients, according to a poster presentation here.

Tarek Eid, MD, and colleagues at the El-Maghraby Eye Hospital in Jidda, Saudi Arabia, conducted the study, which compared 60 monocular patients with both glaucoma and cataract to 60 binocular age- and sex-matched controls. They presented their results in a poster at the European Glaucoma Society meeting.

According to the authors, the monocular patients had more severe glaucoma and more ocular comorbidities. No significant differences were seen between groups in best-corrected visual acuity or IOP control.

Monocular patients had significantly higher rates of postop complications (P = .02), which the authors said was probably due to the higher level of ocular comorbidity and severity of glaucoma.