Equator ring efficacy in maintaining capsular bag integrity and transparency after cataract removal in monkey eyes

Graefe's Archive for Clinical and Experimental Ophthalmology

Volumn 236, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 375-379

  Hashizoe, Mototane ^a,b   Hara, Tsutomu ^c   Ogura, Yuichiro ^b   Sakanishi, Koutarou ^d   Honda, Tomoaki ^d   Hara, Takako ^c  

^a Hikone City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c Hara Eye Hospital   (Japan)

^d MENICON CO LTD   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SILICONE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT EXTRACTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENUCLEATION; FEMALE; LENS CAPSULE; LENS IMPLANT; LENSECTOMY; MICROSCOPY; MONKEY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SURGICAL EQUIPMENT;

ANIMALS; CAPSULORHEXIS; CATARACT; CATARACT EXTRACTION; FEMALE; IMPLANTS, EXPERIMENTAL; LENS CAPSULE, CRYSTALLINE; LENS IMPLANTATION, INTRAOCULAR; MACACA FASCICULARIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SILICONE ELASTOMERS;

EID: 0031899915     PISSN: 0721832X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004170050093     Document Type: Article

References (16)

1. Fukaya Y, Hara T, Hara T, Iwata S (1988) Effect of freezing on lens epithelial cell growth. J Cataract Refract Surg 14:309-311
2. Galand A, Delmelle M (1986) Preliminary report on the rigid disc lens. J Cataract Refract Surg 12:394-397
3. Hara T, Hara T (1985) Recent advance in intracapsular phacoemulsification and complete in-the-bag intraocular lens implantation. J Am Intraocul Implant Soc 11:488-490
4. Hara T, Hara T (1989) Endocapsular phacoemulsification and aspiration (ECPEA) - recent surgical technique and clinical results. Ophthalmic Surg 20:469-475
5. Hara T, Hara T, Yamada Y (1991) "Equator ring" for maintenance of the completely circular contour of the capsular bag equator after cataract removal. Ophthalmic Surg 22:358-359
6. Hara T, Hara T, Yamada Y (1995) Effect of equator rings in an experimental rabbit study. Arch Ophthalmol 113:1060-1065
7. McDonnell PJ, Zarbin MA, Green WR (1983) Posterior capsule opacification in pseudophakic eyes. Ophthalmology 90:1548-1553
8. McDonnell PJ, Stark WJ, Green WR (1984) Posterior capsule opacification: a specular microscopic study. Ophthalmology 91:853-856
9. McDonnell PJ, Rowen SL, Glaser BM, Sato M (1985) Posterior capsule opacification. An in vitro model. Arch Ophthalmol 103:1378-1381
10. Meur G (1987) A new capsule supported intraocular lens. Ophthalmic Surg 18:395-396
11. Nagamoto T, Bissen-Miyajima H (1994) A ring to support the capsular bag after continuous curvilinear capsulorhexis. J Cataract Refract Surg 20:417-420
12. Nishi O (1987) Removal of lens epithelial cells by ultrasound in endocapsular cataract surgery. Ophthalmic Surg 18:577-580
13. Nishi O, Nishi K, Hikida M (1991) Removal of lens epithelial cells by dispersion with enzymatic treatment followed by aspiration. Ophthalmic Surg 22:444-450
14. Schein OD, Steinberg EP, Javitt JC, et al (1994) Variation in cataract surgery practice and clinical outcomes. Ophthalmology 101:1142-1152
15. Wilhelmus KR, Emery JM (1980) Posterior capsule opacification following phacoemulsification. Ophthalmic Surg 11:264-267
16. Van OR, Budo C, Galand A, Foets B, Goes F (1986) Two-year postoperative results of Galand lens implantation. J Cataract Refract Surg 12:135-139