Capsulorrhexis

Small, crowded eyes tend to make phacoemulsification challenging.

Cataract surgery in small hyperopic eyes can be challenging due to the constraints of working in a significantly smaller space.

Welcome to another edition of CEDARS/ASPENS Debates. CEDARS/ASPENS is a society of cornea, cataract and refractive surgery specialists, here to discuss some of the latest hot topics in ophthalmology.

Experienced surgeons are more likely to encounter a posterior capsule rupture during cortex removal than nucleus extraction.

VIENNA — In this Healio Video Perspective from the ESCRS meeting, David Touboul, MD, PhD, presents the Helix Rx handheld femtosecond laser instrument for “frugal” capsulorrhexis.

Healio’s top cataract surgery items in July covered the benefits of cryopreserved amniotic membrane before surgery and a column discussing how an ophthalmologist dealt with the same surgical complication twice in one day.

Precision pulse capsulotomy was found in a study to be as safe as manually performed continuous curvilinear capsulorrhexis in terms of endothelial cell density and other metrics of endothelial cell condition.

This is a simple and novel technique to efficiently and cost-effectively save an unnecessary extra viscoelastic syringe during cataract surgery.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Jason J. Jones, MD, of Jones Eye Clinic in Sioux City, Iowa, shares a phaco case edited into a 4-minute video including all steps of the surgery.

ORLANDO — In this surgical video presentation from Cataract Surgery: Telling It Like It Is, Guadalupe Cervantes-Coste, MD, of Mexico City, shares her cataract surgery technique implanting a trifocal IOL.