Posterior Segment Complications after Cataract Extraction

Abstract

Cataract surgery is the most commonly performed type of eye surgery. The aim of cataract surgery is to improve the visual acuity and thereby visual function, with the implicit assumption that this will also improve overall quality of life (Desai, 1996). In the vast majority of cases the surgery is uncomplicated. However, the surgery should never be trivialized. In a small percentage of patients, events occur which can lead to less than ideal results. Most of these events are known risks of the surgery itself and can occur even if the surgery is performed well by any experienced surgeon and patients should be aware of such possibility when they decide to proceed to surgery (Vincent and Palatano IL 1996).