First postoperative day review after uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery: Is it necessary?

BMC Research Notes

Leonidas Papazisis¹  Evgenia Kanonidou¹  Theodoros N Sergentanis³  Irini P Chatziralli² 

[1] Department of Ophthalmology, General Hospital of Veroia, Veroia, Greece;28, Papanastasiou street, Agios Dimitrios,, 17342, Athens, Greece;Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Medical School, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece

关键词: First day;    Postoperative;    Review;    Cataract;   

Others  :  1166207
DOI  :  10.1186/1756-0500-5-333

 received in 2012-02-05, accepted in 2012-06-27,  发布年份 2012

【 摘 要 】

Background

Our purpose was to examine the value of the first postoperative day review after uneventful phacoemulsification cataract surgery.

Methods

291 patients who underwent uneventful phacoemulsification were randomized into two groups (ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01247155): i) Next day review (NDR group, n = 146) and ii) No next day review (NNDR group, n = 145). The rate of complications, percentage of patients seeking non-scheduled medical consultation up to postoperative day 14, presence of any inflammation-related sign and best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) on postoperative day 28 were analyzed.

Results

In the NDR group, 5.5% of patients developed a postoperative complication, whereas the respective rate was 6.2% in the NNDR group. The difference was not statistically significant (p = 0.791). The most frequent complications were: elevated intraocular pressure, allergy to postoperative treatment, corneal abrasion, punctuate epitheliopathy, iris prolapse and postoperative hyphema, whose rates did not differ between the two groups. The rate of patients seeking non-scheduled medical consultation up to postoperative day 14, presence of any inflammation-related sign, as well as BCVA on day 28 did not exhibit any significant differences between the study groups.

Conclusions

First postoperative day review could be omitted in cases of uneventful cataract surgery.

【 授权许可】

   
2012 Chatziralli et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd.

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