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dc.contributor.authorAtaei, Yasaman
dc.date.accessioned2020-06-08T15:18:23Z
dc.date.available2020-06-08T15:18:23Z
dc.date.issued2020en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10713/12971
dc.description2020
dc.descriptionEpidemiology and Preventive Medicine
dc.descriptionUniversity of Maryland, Baltimore
dc.descriptionM.S.
dc.description.abstractThis is a retrospective cohort study of 244 otherwise healthy eyes (from 244 patients) undergoing cataract surgery. Patients were followed postoperatively at 1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 months for IOP measurement. Combination procedures and glaucomatous eyes were excluded. 147 eyes underwent conventional phacoemulsification and 97 underwent FLACS. Amongst eyes undergoing FLACS, we observed 1.42 mmHg crude decrease in postoperative IOP from baseline over 3 years of follow-up (p = 0.003). Amongst eyes undergoing conventional phacoemulsification, we observed 1.18 mmHg crude decrease in postoperative IOP from baseline over 3 years of follow-up (p = 0.003). Amongst non-Caucasian patients, eyes undergoing FLACS had 1.90-3.38 mmHg lower postoperative IOP compared to eyes undergoing conventional phacoemulsification (ps = 0.04-0.009). Our study showed that in non-Caucasian patients who were followed for an average of 22 months, the postoperative IOP was significantly lower in eyes that underwent FLACS compared to eyes that underwent conventional phacoemulsification.
dc.subjectcataract surgeryen_US
dc.subjectconventional phacoemulsificationen_US
dc.subjectfemtosecond laser assisted cataract surgeryen_US
dc.subjectFLACSen_US
dc.subject.meshCataract Extractionen_US
dc.subject.meshGlaucomaen_US
dc.subject.meshPhacoemulsificationen_US
dc.titleLong term intraocular pressure (IOP) lowering effect of Femtosecond Laser Assisted Cataract Surgery (FLACS) versus conventional phacoemulsification (PE)en_US
dc.typedissertationen_US
dc.date.updated2020-06-04T16:04:04Z
dc.language.rfc3066en
dc.contributor.advisorSaeedi, Osamah J.
refterms.dateFOA2020-06-08T15:18:25Z


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