Surgical and Visual Outcome of Phacoemulsification Surgery (Routine) and Micro - Phaco (Bimanual Phaco): A Comparative Study

Abstract

Cataract surgery has evolved over the past few decades with progressive decrease in the size of the incision. Originally from 12 mm intracapsular incision to bimanual phacoemulsification (Micro-Phaco) that has incision size of just 700 microns. In the present comparative PROSPECTIVE study best corrected visual acuity postoperatively and surgically induced astigmatism were compared in routine Phacoemulsification technique and bimanual phaco (Micro-Phaco) 60 eyes were studied. There was no statistically significant difference in postoperative best corrected visual acuity (BCVA) of patients operated with Micro-Phaco or routine Phacoemulsification. There was difference in surgically induced astigmatism (SIA); average SIA in microphaco was 0.5972 as against 0.8328 in routine Phacoemulsification.