Corneal endothelial damage after cataract surgery: Microincision versus standard technique

Abstract

No significant differences in corneal endothelial cell loss or endothelial morphology were found between MICS and standard incision techniques.

Influence of anterior chamber depth, anterior chamber volume, axial length, and lens density on postoperative endothelial cell loss

“…Operative parameters such as surgery time, phaco time, mean ultrasound power, and corneal tunnel length, as well as irrigation solution turbulence, instrument-related trauma, intraocular lens (IOL) contact, nuclear fragments, type of the implanted intraocular lens, and type of viscoelastic substances were associated with endothelial cell loss [11,7,[12][13][14][15][16].…”

Clinical Results and Higher-Order Aberrations after 1.4-mm Biaxial Cataract Surgery and Implantation of a New Aspheric Intraocular Lens

“…Some studies found that the degree of induced astigmatism after bimanual MICS is equal to or even less than that of conventional coaxial small incision cataract surgery [4,7,19,23] and that the tissue damage from bimanual MICS is comparable to that from small incision cataract surgery [19,[23][24][25][26][27] . However, there are some disadvantages to B-MICS including wound damage, difficulties in mastering the technique, leakage due to thermal burn and the need for wound enlargement for IOL implantation [2,5,10,28,29] .…”

Coupling of HRT II and AS-OCT to evaluate corneal endothelial cell loss and in vivo visualization of the Ahmed glaucoma valve implant

“…16,17,[20][21][22] However, the incision site, operative technique, and measurement methods vary and lead to different results. Recently, in a large series of 433 patients, Bourne et al 16 found a mean reduction in endothelial cell count of 16.1 and 14.2% 12 months following phacoemulsification and extracapsular cataract extraction, respectively.…”