Clinical Study of Cataract Surgery in Diabetics

ABSTRACT

We have retrospectively studied 118 eyes of 91 diabetic patients which underwent cataract surgery and followed up at least 3 months and the postoperative corrected visual acuity compared according to the degree of retinopathy, duration of diabetics and age of the patients The results were as follows: 1. Age distribution of the diabetic patients were 17-85 years old and 6th decade was most frequent group and the percentage of male patients were 64.8% and 82.4% of total patients were over 50 years of age. 2. The postoperative corrected visual acuity above 20/40 according to patient age was 100% in the 3rd decade and 1st decade, 87.5% in the 4th decade, 73.5% in the 5th decade, 80.9% in the 6th decade and 42.8% in the 2nd decade. The postoperative visual acuity was generally better in younger patients. 3. The postoperative corrected visual acutiy above 20/40 according to degree of diabetics was 94.2% in Non Diabetic Retinopathy, 78.5% in Background Diabetic Retinopathy, 11.1% in Proliferative Diabetic Retinophthy. The postoperative corrected visual acuity was worse in severe retinopthy group. 4. The postoperative corrected visual acuity above 20/40 according to duration of diabetics was 94.2% in under 5 years, 83.9% in 10 < -15 years, 56.1% in above 15 years and the result was better in short diabetic duraction group.