2014 - 6 Issue

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Actual State of the One Day Simultaneous Bilateral Cataract Surgery Issue

Dalibor Cholevík ORCID

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Published in Czech and Slovak Ophtalmology: 2014 - 6

Published on website: 06.11.2014

Keywords: One-day Simultaneous Bilateral Cataract Surgery (SBCS), indications, complications, endophthalmitis

Summary

One-day Simultaneous Bilateral Cataract Surgery (SBCS) is not common routine procedure; nevertheless many surgeons all over the world perform it. During the history, SBCS was always performed, but due to the phacoemulsification development making the small incision surgery possible, more papers in the scientific literature are appearing. Besides the SBCS indications and contraindications, the intraoperative and postoperative complications are discussed, especially the danger of bilateral postoperative endophthalmitis. In this paper, an overview of the most important publications concerning the SBCS is presented.

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