Cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed surgical interventions worldwide. The development of phacoemulsification technology, instrumentation, and surgical techniques has improved procedures' efficacy and safety. For example, a heads-up three-dimensional (3D) digital visualization system was recently evaluated and shown to be safe for cataract surgery, radically improving the quality of surgical visualization. This system has several advantages over conventional microscopes, including digitally enhanced imaging, extended depth of field (DOF), and an ocular-free design, improving ergonomic conditions for the surgeon, and allowing the surgeon to perform surgery in unusual and challenging positions. Furthermore, cataract surgery techniques have changed dramatically in the past three decades in the procedures are significantly faster and safer.
Despite this revolution in cataract surgery, numerous challenges remain, such in cases with increased lens density and zonular weakness. Furthermore, operating cataracts with associated corneal guttae is a particular situation in which the aim of surgery is cataract removal and preserving corneal endothelium as possible. In addition, uveitis cataracts may be surgically challenging in the presence of posterior synechiae, atrophic iris, and a small pupil.
This Research Topic aims to attract original research and review articles on innovations in cataract surgery. We are particularly interested in articles reporting novel concepts, surgical techniques, surgical technologies, or instruments that can help the surgeon perform challenging cases or improve the course and outcomes of standard surgical procedures. We are also particularly interested in optical biometry and intraocular lens technologies that may improve postoperative refractive results' accuracy. We believe this topic will improve our knowledge and understanding of emerging technologies in the most performed surgery in ophthalmology.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Three-dimensional heads-up visualization and cataract surgery.
• Intraoperative optical coherence tomography imaging during cataract surgery.
• Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and new emerging laser technologies.
• Intra-operative aberrometry guided cataract surgery.
• Robotic cataract surgery.
• Surgical techniques in cataract surgery.
• Recent advances in new intraocular lens technology.
• Accuracy of new optical biometers in pre-operative evaluation before cataract surgery.
• Uveitic cataracts.
Cataract surgery is one of the most frequently performed surgical interventions worldwide. The development of phacoemulsification technology, instrumentation, and surgical techniques has improved procedures' efficacy and safety. For example, a heads-up three-dimensional (3D) digital visualization system was recently evaluated and shown to be safe for cataract surgery, radically improving the quality of surgical visualization. This system has several advantages over conventional microscopes, including digitally enhanced imaging, extended depth of field (DOF), and an ocular-free design, improving ergonomic conditions for the surgeon, and allowing the surgeon to perform surgery in unusual and challenging positions. Furthermore, cataract surgery techniques have changed dramatically in the past three decades in the procedures are significantly faster and safer.
Despite this revolution in cataract surgery, numerous challenges remain, such in cases with increased lens density and zonular weakness. Furthermore, operating cataracts with associated corneal guttae is a particular situation in which the aim of surgery is cataract removal and preserving corneal endothelium as possible. In addition, uveitis cataracts may be surgically challenging in the presence of posterior synechiae, atrophic iris, and a small pupil.
This Research Topic aims to attract original research and review articles on innovations in cataract surgery. We are particularly interested in articles reporting novel concepts, surgical techniques, surgical technologies, or instruments that can help the surgeon perform challenging cases or improve the course and outcomes of standard surgical procedures. We are also particularly interested in optical biometry and intraocular lens technologies that may improve postoperative refractive results' accuracy. We believe this topic will improve our knowledge and understanding of emerging technologies in the most performed surgery in ophthalmology.
Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:
• Three-dimensional heads-up visualization and cataract surgery.
• Intraoperative optical coherence tomography imaging during cataract surgery.
• Femtosecond laser-assisted cataract surgery and new emerging laser technologies.
• Intra-operative aberrometry guided cataract surgery.
• Robotic cataract surgery.
• Surgical techniques in cataract surgery.
• Recent advances in new intraocular lens technology.
• Accuracy of new optical biometers in pre-operative evaluation before cataract surgery.
• Uveitic cataracts.