Complications of cataract surgery in diabetics

ABSTRACT

In retrospective study, eighty diabetic patients underwent extracapsular cataract extraction [ECCE] and intraocular lens [IOL] implantation. Fifty of them with retinopathy and the other thirty without retinopathy. The age of the patient at the time of surgery ranged from 40-60 years [mean 49]. Forty four patients had insulin dependent and thirty six patients had non insulin depedent. Follow-up examination were performed one day, three days, one week, four weeks and then every two months. The postoperative data included best visual acuity, any change in the state of retinopathy, cystoid macular oedema, opacification of the posterior capsule and additional surgical procedure including yag laser capsulotomy