Cataract Videos

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Sub-Tenon anesthesia

Switch from Intra-cameral to sub-Tenon’s anesthesia in cataract surgery

Sub-conjunctival anesthesia

Simple case: Straightforward phacoemulsification – cataract surgery

Complex case: Brunescent cataract, white mature cortex, needle and cannula aspiration of emulsified cortex, spiral CCC

Simple case: Toric monofocal intraocular lens to correct astigmatism

Toric IOL keratoconus patient, soft lens, two halfs phaco, vision blue, floppy iris

Complex case: Polar cataract, hydrodelineation, gentle peripheral only hydro and viscodissection

Polar cataract with posterior capsule true defect & CCC retrieval

Complex case: Dense cataract, switch to Viscoat when realised very dense, difficulties cracking the posterior plate in dense cataract 20-5-2016

Complex case: Zonules weakness capsulorhexis retractors, intra capsular tension ring

Pseudoexfoliation, white cataract, small pupil shallow anterior chamber

Vertical chopping – Dens+++ large size cataract, spiral CCC

Viscosynaechiotomy 360 degrees, stretching the pupil, small pupil phaco, Mydrane used

Repeat hydro-dissection with  flip of nucleus – soft lens 

Previous Trabeculectomy wit iris fibres to the Trab.’s side port, NVI from CRVO, posterior synechiae, only eye

Complex case: Capsulorhexis in hugely swollen white cataract, liquefied cortex aspiration, constant Healon 5 top-up

 White hugely swollen cataract, discontinuation of capsulorhexis, healon 5 used

Floppy iris management with Healon GV

Capsulorhexis after anterior capsule damage with keratome by a trainee

Anterior chamber haemorrhage during phacoemulsification

Posterior capsule rupture – trainee, anterior vitrectomy – consultant, IOL in the bag

Amsler sign during cataract surgery in two patients with heterochromic cyclitis

Aspirating a fibre at the end of phacoemulsification

Polishing the posterior capsule 

Posterior capsule soft lens matter irrigation

Complex scenario: Stuck haptic in the cartridge

Complex scenario: Stuck IOL haptic in the cartridge

Spiral capsulorhexis in a swollen cataract
Phacoemulsification in a patient with previous radial keratotomy
Polishing the posterior capsule
Viscoat entrapment of a lens fragment
Not just a post operative endophthalmitis

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