

Your eye doctor may have you clean your eyelids and eyelashes with baby shampoo the night before and the morning of your surgery to get rid of any germs that could cause an infection.īe sure to bring a friend or family member with you the day of your surgery. Your eye doctor may tell you to stop eating and drinking several hours before your surgery. If you take a medication that could cause bleeding during your surgery, your eye doctor may ask you to stop taking it for a little while. It can also appear as a split in the iris from the pupil to the edge of the iris. In the United States, about 4 million cataract surgery procedures are performed every year. Tell your eye doctor about any medications you take. Coloboma of the iris can look like a second pupil or a black notch at the edge of the pupil. Cataract surgery complications are few, and cataract surgery is among the most common and most successful surgical procedures performed today. Your eye doctor may prescribe these eye drops to help protect your eye from getting an infection. Complications Associated with Cataract Surgery. These tests help your eye doctor choose the right kind of artificial lens (called an intraocular lens, or IOL). This is an unusual complication of cataract surgery and usually occurs several months later. About a week before your surgery, your eye doctor will do some tests to measure the size and shape of your eye. Noting a small triangular shadow from the pupil that points toward the nasal side away from the light source suggests increased intraocular pressure. Your eye doctor will tell you exactly what you need to do. Postoperatively, following pupil dilation there was a significant difference in the horizontal diameter and vertical diameter of the pupil ( P. It is particularly important to measure the IOP after complicated surgery or combined cataract and glaucoma or vitreo-retinal surgery. The iris is located in the front portion (anterior) of the uvea. The mean postoperative pupil diameter after dilation with a mydriatic (tropicamide 0.8phenylephrine 5) was 1.72 ± 0.23 mm and 1.82 ± 0.33 mm, respectively. Attention Your ePaper is waiting for publication By publishing your document, the content will be optimally indexed by Google via AI and sorted into the right category for over 500 million ePaper readers on YUMPU. The shape of the pupil: a misshapen pupil may indicate iris capture within the wound, surgical trauma or distortion of the pupil by vitreous or a displaced IOL. To subdue inflammation, topical corticosteroids can be used.

If the pupil can be fully dilated during the treatment of iritis, the prognosis for recovery from synechia is good. The uvea is the middle layer of the eye between the retina and the white part of the eye. Dilation of the pupil in an eye with synechia can cause the pupil to take an irregular, non-circular shape (dyscoria) as shown in the photograph. Another name for iritis is anterior uveitis. You’ll probably need to take a few steps to get ready for your cataract surgery. Iritis (i-RYE-tis) is swelling and irritation (inflammation) in the colored ring around your eye's pupil (iris).
