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Cataract surgery in patients with a low corneal endothelial cell density

Poster Details

First Author: I.Petric Vickovic CROATIA

Co Author(s):    V. Lacmanovic Loncar   R. Ivekovic   I. Krolo   G. Maric           

Abstract Details

Purpose:

To analyze rate of endothelial cell loss after cataract surgery in eyes with low endothelial cell density and compare with eyes with normal endothlial cell density

Setting:

University hospital Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb, Croatia

Methods:

Cataract surgery was performed in eyes with endothelial cell density less than 1000 cells/mm2 and eyes with normal endothlial cell density (control group). The rate of endothelial cell loss and central corneal thickness were measured postoperatively and compared.

Results:

The low endothlial cell density group and group with normal endothelial cell density each compromised 15 eyes. The mean rate of endothelial cell loss was < 10% in both groups. There was no significant difference in the percentage of cell loss between groups. The central corneal thickness was greater in low endothelial cell density group.

Conclusions:

Corneal endothelial cell loss in eyes with low endothelial cell density was slight and comparable with healthy eyes.

Financial Disclosure:

None