Seven-year trends in cataract surgery indications and quality of outcomes at Aravind Eye Hospitals, India

Seven-year trends in cataract surgery indications and quality of outcomes at Aravind Eye Hospitals, India

Purpose To report trends in cataract surgery indications, visual acuity outcomes, complication rates and reoperation rates at ten Aravind Eye Hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India. Methods In this retrospective database study we analyzed seven years of data of cataract surgeries at Aravind during January 1...

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Veröffentlicht in:Eye (London) 2021-07, Vol.35 (7), p.1895-1903
Hauptverfasser: Ravindran, Ravilla D., Gupta, Sachin, Haripriya, Aravind, Ravilla, Thulasiraj, S, Ashok Vardhan, Subburaman, Ganesh-Babu B.
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Sprache:eng
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Acuity
Cataract
Cataract Extraction
Cataracts
Eye
Eye surgery
Hospitals
Humans
India - epidemiology
Laboratory Medicine
Lens Implantation, Intraocular
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Ophthalmology
Phacoemulsification
Pharmaceutical Sciences/Technology
Postoperative Complications - epidemiology
Retrospective Studies
Science & Technology
Surgery
Surgical Oncology
Surgical outcomes
Treatment Outcome
Trends
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Zusammenfassung:Purpose To report trends in cataract surgery indications, visual acuity outcomes, complication rates and reoperation rates at ten Aravind Eye Hospitals in Tamil Nadu, India. Methods In this retrospective database study we analyzed seven years of data of cataract surgeries at Aravind during January 1, 2012 to December 31, 2018. Our main outcome measures were preoperative and 1-month postoperative uncorrected visual acuity (UCVA) and best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA); and rates of intraoperative complications and reoperations. We performed Cochran–Armitage trend tests. Results In 1.86 million eyes that underwent cataract surgery, the percentage of eyes undergoing phacoemulsification (PE) showed an increasing trend ( p  
ISSN:0950-222X
1476-5454
DOI:10.1038/s41433-020-0954-5