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Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures

Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures encompass a diverse range of surgical interventions targeting the eye and its surrounding structures.
These procedures aim to treat various ocular conditions, enhance visual function, and improve patient outcomes.
The field includes procedures such as cataract removal, corneal transplantation, refractive surgery, and vitreoretinal interventions, among others.
Researchers in this domain leverage the latest advancements in surgical techniques, instrumentation, and medical technologies to optimize patient care and advance the field of ophthalmology.
By carefully selecting and comparing surgical protocols, researchers can ensure reproducibility, enhance surgical outcomes, and drive innovation in this critical area of healthcare.

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Seven hundred sixty participants (393 AD and 367 ED) enrolled in ADAGES (n=582) or in the Diagnostic Innovations in Glaucoma Study (DIGS) (n=178) were included in this study. Ancestry classification in these studies is based on self-report. When eligible (DIGS/ADAGES inclusion/exclusion criteria and the specific criteria required to be included in this study are explained in this section), both eyes of each participant were included (1478 eyes, including 764 AD and 714 ED eyes). DIGS is conducted at the Hamilton Glaucoma Center at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), whereas ADAGES is a multicenter study conducted at UCSD, the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB), and the New York Eye and Ear Infirmary (NYEE). Protocols were in place to ensure that testing procedures were comparable at all sites. These ongoing studies are prospectively designed to assess structure and function in glaucoma. Enrollment of participants is based on the inclusion/exclusion criteria specified below. Patient participants are followed up annually, whereas only baseline data are obtained from most healthy participants (a small subset of healthy participants will have follow-up data). All ADAGES and DIGS participants with healthy eyes were included in the study reported herein. Healthy eyes were defined as having a normal appearance of the optic disc on stereoscopic photographs, intraocular pressure (IOP) of less than 22 mm Hg (measured once), no history of elevated IOP, and no use of glaucoma medication or surgery in either eye. Visual field data were not used for classification purposes. Healthy control participants for ADAGES and DIGS were recruited to join the study by advertisement, from family members of patients, and from primary eye care clinics. Informed consent was obtained from all participants, and the local institutional review board at each site approved all methods. Participants were minimally compensated for their involvement in the study. This study adhered to the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki for research involving human subjects and conformed to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.
Publication 2010
Ethics Committees, Research Family Member Glaucoma Healthy Volunteers Innovativeness Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Optic Disk Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Primary Health Care Tests, Diagnostic Tonometry, Ocular
Patients age ≥45 years requiring major non-cardiac surgery between 2004 and 2013 were included in this analysis. Patients were identified using the Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project’s (HCUP) National Inpatient Sample (NIS), a large administrative database of discharge-level data from a 20 percent stratified sample of all hospitals in the United States with de-identified data from approximately 8 million hospitalizations per year.12 (link) Patients were included if they had a principal Clinical Classifications Software (CCS) procedure code representing a major therapeutic operating room procedure (HCUP Procedure Class 4). Principal CCS procedure codes represent an aggregate of relevant primary International Classification of Diseases, Ninth Revision (ICD-9) procedure codes by surgical subtype. Patients who underwent cardiac procedures (n=1,655,567), cardiac surgery and cardiac transplantation (n=582,726), bone marrow transplantation (n=18,151), ophthalmologic surgery (n=13,342), radiation therapy (n=9,817), dental surgery (n=1,779), and non-operating room procedures (n=386) as a principal in-hospital procedure were excluded. Major non-cardiac surgery CCS procedure codes were clustered into 13 major surgical subtypes: breast, endocrine, otolaryngology, general, genitourinary, gynecologic, neurosurgery, obstetrics, orthopedic, skin and burn, thoracic, non-cardiac transplant, and vascular surgery.
Publication 2017
Bone Marrow Transplantation Breast Dental Health Services Heart Heart Transplantation Hospitalization Inpatient Neurosurgical Procedures Operative Surgical Procedures Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Patient Discharge Patients Radiotherapy Skin Surgical Procedure, Cardiac System, Endocrine System, Genitourinary Therapeutics Vascular Surgical Procedures
Preoperative peripheral iridotomies by neodymium - yttrium - aluminum - garnet (Nd:YAG) laser or intraoperative peripheral iridotomies were performed for ICL V4 implantations and no peripheral iridotomies were performed for ICL V4c implantations. On the day of surgery, all patients were administered with dilating and cycloplegic agents (2.5 % phenylephrine and 1 % tropicamide, Alcon, China). After topical anaesthesia (0.4 % oxybuprocaine hydrochloride, Santen, Japan) and injection of a viscoelastic surgical agent (1.7 % Sodium hyaluronate; Bausch & Lomb, China) into the anterior chamber, an ICL V4 IOL was inserted via a 2.8–3.2 mm temporal clear corneal incision with the use of an injector cartridge (STAAR Surgical). After the ICL was placed in the posterior chamber, the surgeon then completely removed the viscoelastic surgical agent from the eye using a balanced salt solution and instilled a miotic agent (0.005 % carbachol, Bausch & Lomb, China). All surgeries were uneventful and no intraoperative complications were observed. Following surgery, a combination antibacterial and steroidal medication (0.1 % Tobramycin dexamethasone, Alcon, China) was prescribed four times daily for 3 days followed by fluorometholone eyedrops tapered gradually over 2 weeks. Antibiotic eyedrops (0.5 % left Ofloxacin, Santen, Japan) were then prescribed four times daily for 1 week, along with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory eyedrops (NSAID, pranoprofen, Senju, Japan) four times daily for 2 weeks, and artificial tears four times daily for 1 month.
Publication 2016
Anti-Bacterial Agents Anti-Inflammatory Agents, Non-Steroidal Antibiotics benoxinate Carbachol Chambers, Anterior Cornea Cycloplegics Eye Drops Fluorometholone Intraoperative Complications Lubricant Eye Drops Miotics Neodymium Neodymium-Doped Yttrium Aluminum Garnet Lasers Ofloxacin Operative Surgical Procedures Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Ovum Implantation Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Phenylephrine pyranoprofen Sodium Chloride Sodium Hyaluronate Steroids Surgeons Surgery, Day Tobramycin, Dexamethasone Drug Combination Topical Anesthetics Tropicamide yttrium-aluminum-garnet
All control subjects were at least 60 years of age and matched according to age, gender, and ethnicity to the enrolled index cases. Controls were chosen to be five years older than their corresponding case to minimize the enrollment of controls who might later develop FECD and confound analysis. To qualify, each control subject was required to be grade 0 on the FECD grading scale, have no family history of a possibly inherited corneal disorder (e.g., FECD, keratoconus, stromal dystrophy), exhibit refractive astigmatism of less than 3.50D and have normal corneas with no abnormalities upon slit lamp examination other than the following noted exceptions: 1) peripheral degenerative changes related to age, including arcus senilis and limbal-girdle of Vogt, 2) corneal scar from infection or penetrating trauma, 3) pterygium or pterygium surgery, 4) inactive superficial vascularization of the epithelium and/or subepithelial layer, 5) previous glaucoma, or retina-vitreous surgery in one eye where the other eye had not had surgery and the endothelium was normal, 6) previous intraocular laser surgery. Bilateral pseudophakes who received an FECD grade of 0 and were FECD negative preoperatively also qualified. The limbal/peripheral corneal incisions related to cataract surgery were judged unlikely to affect the central cornea and, thus, the ability to assess the FECD phenotype. Subjects were excluded from participation as controls if they displayed any signs of corneal dystrophy or degeneration, had previous/active interstitial keratitis or anterior uveitis, or active/previous infectious keratitis or vascularization of the epithelium and/or stroma. Subjects were also excluded if they had previously undergone bilateral corneal surgery or had experienced perforating corneal trauma resulting in scarring.
Publication 2012
Arcus Senilis Astigmatism Cataract Extraction Congenital Abnormality Cornea Cornea Injuries Corneal Diseases Endothelium Epithelium Ethnicity Gender Glaucoma Hereditary Corneal Dystrophy Infection Keratitis Keratoconus Laser Surgery Limbus Corneae Ocular Refraction Operative Surgical Procedures Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Pathologic Neovascularization Phenotype Pterygium Of Conjunctiva And Cornea Retina Slit Lamp Examination Uveitis, Anterior Wounds, Penetrating
The diagnostic criteria for early COPD are still inconclusive, so this protocol does not provide a clear definition of early COPD. We will adopt whether FEV1/FVC is greater than or less than 0.7 for enrollment in the study design, and we will further analyze the definitions of early COPD one by one in the future analysis of cohort data. This is a prospective observational cohort study among individuals aged 40–80 years in Guangdong, China. We will recruit approximately 2,000 participants (1,000 without COPD, 800 with GOLD stage 1–2, and 200 with GOLD stage 3–4) from the community using a population-based survey for COPD. Participants will complete standard respiratory epidemiological questionnaires and pre-bronchodilator and post-bronchodilator spirometry. We will also collect information regarding health outcomes [modified British Medical Research Council (mMRC) dyspnea scale, COPD assessment test (CAT) and COPD clinical questionnaire (CCQ)], We will also obtain satellite remote sensing data to assess pollutant exposure. All Participants with post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC <0.70 will be invited to participate in the ECOPD study. According to the chronological order of spirometry completion, we will randomly invite a quarter of participants who have post-bronchodilator FEV1/FVC ≥0.70 to participate in the ECOPD study. Participants who are invited and willing to participate in the study will further complete a chest computed tomography (CT) scan, impulse oscillometry (IOS), and biomarker measurement (blood and urine). Subgroup will additionally complete induced sputum, exercise capacity tests [6-minute walk test (6MWT) and cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET)] and home monitoring/personal sampling as pollutant exposure measures (Figure 1).
The inclusion criteria are as follows: (I) aged 40–80 years; (II) willing to participate in this study and providing a signed informed consent form; (III) completing the standard respiratory epidemiological questionnaire in this study; and (IV) completing pre-bronchodilator and post-bronchodilator spirometry. The exclusion criteria are as follows: (I) aged <40 or >80 years; (II) respiratory infection or exacerbation in the 4 weeks prior to screening; (III) heart attack (myocardial infarction, malignant arrhythmia) in the past 3 months; (IV) hospitalized for heart disease within the past 1 month; (V) chest, abdomen, or eye surgery in the past 3 months; (VI) previous lobectomy; (VII) malignant tumors newly discovered and being treated; (VIII) receiving anti-tuberculosis drug treatment or active pulmonary tuberculosis; (IX) history of mental disorders, auditory hallucinations, visual hallucinations, or taking antipsychotic drugs; (X) history of cognitive disorders, including dementia or cognitive disorders; (XI) history of high paraplegia; and (XII) pregnant or lactating women. Considering that some patients with asthma have a high risk of developing COPD, a previous diagnosis of asthma confirmed by a pulmonary physician and the presence or absence of airflow reversibility will not be an exclusion criterion (22 (link),23 (link)).
Publication 2021
6-Minute Walk Test Abdomen Antipsychotic Agents Antitubercular Agents Asthma Biological Markers BLOOD Bronchodilator Agents Cardiac Arrhythmia Chest Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease Cognition Disorders Dementia Diagnosis Dyspnea Environmental Pollutants Exercise Tests Gold Hallucinations, Auditory Hallucinations, Visual Heart Diseases Lung Malignant Neoplasms Mental Disorders Myocardial Infarction Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Oscillometry Paraplegia Patients Physicians Radionuclide Imaging Respiratory Rate Respiratory Tract Infections Spirometry Sputum, Induced Tuberculosis, Pulmonary Urine Woman X-Ray Computed Tomography

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Before hospital discharge, both groups were booked for follow-up on POD 2 and were notified of their appointment by a phone message at discharge.
Participants in the TEL group received follow-up by telephone consultation. The calls were placed during the daytime on POD 2. Telephone consultations were entirely made in Chinese by a trained certified research nurse, using a standard questionnaire to ensure consistency. The questionnaire was created based on the most frequent postoperative complications after ophthalmic surgeries following general anesthesia [7 (link)]. If patients had additional clinical concerns, they were provided with appropriate contact information. The satisfaction level for the follow-up method was also assessed. These variables were documented as ‘yes’ or ‘no’ in the electronic medical record, and any additional patient concerns were noted as described in detail. In the QR group, patients received follow-up using QR code. A specific QR code was pre-generated to link the web version of the follow-up questionnaire (Fig. 1), which contained questions the same as those in the group TEL. Before patient discharge, a QR code scan application (WeChat) was installed on their smartphones, and they were trained in application use, including how to move from question to question, how to input a response, and how to submit, by the nurses in the PACU. A research nurse would extract and check the responses through the computer client on the follow-up day. Based on patient responses, if the assessment demonstrated an abnormal recovery, defined as worsening pain despite the use of analgesics, signs or symptoms of uncontrolled complications (i.e., high fever, severe vomiting, etc.), or persistent bleeding at the incision site, a nurse-initiated telephone call was made to the patient with treatment advice.

A Quick response code used for post-discharge follow-up; B Application function diagram on mobile that demonstrated the English web version of the follow-up questionnaire

For those who were incomplete follow-up at their appointment time, they were given a reminder by phone message once again. Lost to follow-up was defined as unable to complete follow-up via QR code or be contacted via telephone after 3 times of additional message reminders.
Publication 2023
Analgesics Chinese Conditioning, Psychology Fever General Anesthesia Nurses Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Pain Patient Discharge Patients Postoperative Complications Radionuclide Imaging Satisfaction
The present study was designed as a prospective control study. 30 eyes of 30 healthy adults were evaluated (7 male, 23 female). Mean age was 28.7 ± 11.8 years with a range of 19–60 years (women: 28.8 ± 11.4; men: 28.4 ± 13.0). According to the spherical equivalent refraction (SER), 15 emmetropic subjects (SER: +0.75 to -0.75 DS, mean: -0.13 ± 0.2 DS), 13 myopic (SER: ≤ -1.00 DS, mean: -3.46 ± 1.8 DS) and two hyperopic (SER: ≥ + 1.00 DS, mean +1.375 ± 0 DS) eyes were analyzed. A complete standardized ophthalmologic screening, including slit-lamp biomicroscopy, fundoscopy and Goldman applanation tonometry, was performed on each subject. The presence of any eye disease and previous ophthalmic surgery or laser treatment were exclusion criteria and IOP had to be within the normal range. The study protocol was approved by the local ethic committee of Erlangen and was performed in accordance with the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Informed written consent, approved by the ethic committee of Erlangen, was obtained from all study participants.
Publication 2023
Adult Ethics Committees Eye Eye Disorders Males Myopia Ocular Refraction Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Ophthalmoscopy Slit Lamp Examination Tonometry, Ocular Woman
In this prospective, cross-sectional, and comparative investigation, 64 right eyes of 64 participants were evaluated at The University, Medical Faculty, Department of Ophthalmology. The University-Local Ethics Committee approved the study protocol (Protokol Number; 2016-58-09.03). The study was conducted in accordance with the ethical principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and all of the participants provided written informed consent.
The study groups were selected from patients who have been diagnosed with OSAS by PSG in the Sleep Disorder Laboratory of the Department of Thoracic Medicine but have not yet been treated. The control group was selected from healthy volunteers who applied to the ophthalmology outpatient clinic with presbyopic complaints. Both the Berlin questionnaire (9 (link)) was applied and a complete physical examination was performed by a thoracic medicine specialist (FE) to the participants to be included in the control group to exclude possible OSAS cases. The subjects who had a total score of <2 in the Berlin questionnaire and had no additional ocular and systemic diseases except controlled HT were included in the control group.
The patients who were <18 years old, who had any corneal diseases, ocular diseases requires continued medication (diseases such as glaucoma, uveitis, dry eyes, etc.), previous operation history of the eye in the past 6 months, contact lens use within last 4 weeks, the best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) <20/30 with spherical and cylindrical refraction exceeding ±3 diopter were excluded from the study. Patients who have systemic diseases that may affect the biomechanics of the cornea, such as Sjögren’s Disease, chronic renal failure, diabetes mellitus (DM), liver diseases, chronic obstructive pulmonary diseases, rheumatic, and oncological disorders were also excluded from the study.
The study group was selected according to their AHI value. While mild OSAS cases (AHI <15) were excluded, 32 eyes of 32 patients with moderate to severe OSAS (AHI ≥15; number of moderate case=16 and number of severe case=16) were included in the study (Group 1). The control group was determined as “Group 0” and 32 eyes of 32 patients were recruited in Group 0. Only the right eyes of the subjects were evaluated in both groups.
Publication 2023
Biomechanical Phenomena Chronic Obstructive Airway Disease Contact Lenses Cornea Corneal Diseases Diabetes Mellitus Dry Eye Eye Faculty, Medical Glaucoma Healthy Volunteers Kidney Failure, Chronic Liver Diseases Neoplasms Ocular Refraction Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Patients Pharmaceutical Preparations Physical Examination Regional Ethics Committees Sleep Sleep Apnea, Obstructive Thoracic Diseases Uveitis Vision Visual Acuity
This study included patients older than 16 years who underwent strabismus surgery at Dr. Sadi Konuk Education and Research Hospital, Ophthalmology department from January 2015 to December 2020. The study protocol followed the tenets of the Declaration of Helsinki. Approval from the local ethics committee was obtained and written informed consent from the participants was taken (August 16, 2021).
We retrospectively reviewed the records of patients from the hospital electronic system. The patients whose examinations were performed properly and data kept regularly and follow-up time over a year were included in the study. Paralytic, consecutive, and restrictive deviations were not included in the study. Patients with neurological and mental disorders, history of previous eye surgery, and trauma were excluded from the study.
Full ophthalmologic examination was performed in all patients. Best corrected visual acuity was measured with Snellen chart. Deviation at distance and near measured by prism cover test.
Fusion was obtained using the Worth-4-Dot test at distance fixation. Stereoacuity was examined using the Titmus test (Stereo Optical, Chicago, IL). Patients looked at the stereogram at distance of 40 cm while wearing polarizing glasses. The last correct target recognized was used as the subject’s stereopsis level. Stereoacuity was recorded as nil if the largest disparity could not be identified, and 6000 arcsec was accepted for nil stereopsis for the purpose of statistical analysis.
The following parameters were recorded: Age, refractive error, follow-up time, presence of amblyopia, deviation angle before and after from surgery, stereoacuity, and fusion ability preoperatively and postoperatively.
Publication 2023
Amblyopia Depth Perception Eyeglasses Mental Disorders Operative Surgical Procedures Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Patients Physical Examination prisma Refractive Errors Regional Ethics Committees Strabismus Vision Visual Acuity Wounds and Injuries
The study included 49 AD patients and 48 healthy controls (HCs) matched by age, gender from the Department of Neurology at Xiangya Hospital of Central South University, between March 2020 and May 2022. The subjects were between 50 and 80 years of age, and the AD patients met the diagnostic criteria of “probable AD” in the 2011 edition of the National Institute on Aging and Alzheimer’s Association (NIA-AA) guidelines (McKhann et al., 2011 (link)). The exclusion criteria of the study were as follows: (1) Best-corrected visual acuity (BCVA) >6.00 D or with astigmatism >3.00 D, and (3) intraocular pressure (IOP) >21 mmHg. All participants were free of other neurologic, psychiatric disorders, and systemic diseases that may affect retina (such as diabetes mellitus and uncontrolled hypertension), as well as ocular diseases (including cataract, glaucoma, uveitis, epiretinal membrane, age-related macular degeneration, macular hole, eye trauma, and any eye surgery). The Ethics Committee of Xiangya Hospital of Central South University approved this study, and all subjects signed written informed consent.
Publication 2023
Age-Related Macular Degeneration Astigmatism Cataract Diabetes Mellitus Diagnosis Epiretinal Membrane Ethics Committees, Clinical Eye Injuries Gender Glaucoma High Blood Pressures Macular Holes Nervous System Disorder Ophthalmologic Surgical Procedures Patients Retina Tonometry, Ocular Uveitis Vision Visual Acuity

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Ophthalmological surgical procedures encompass a diverse range of interventions targeting the eye and its surrounding structures.
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