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We performed a systematic review and meta-analysis to evaluate the benefit and harms associated with implantation of toric intraocular lenses (IOLs) during cataract surgery. Outcomes were postoperative uncorrected distance visual acuity (UCDVA) and distance spectacle independence. Harms were evaluated as surgical complications and residual astigmatism.
Read more: Toric Intraocular Lenses in the Correction of Astigmatism During Cataract Surgery
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The article by Meuer et al1 reports that epiretinal membranes were absent in 19% of those having had cataract extraction, and present in 33%, with a P value of <0.0001. This is a stunning finding and seems to indicate that cataract extraction is not as benign a procedure as it seems generally thought to be. The authors do not comment on whether this was merely a function of age, or seemed to be related to the surgery.
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In our study,1 the original frequencies of epiretinal membranes reported were crude (33% in eyes with cataract surgery vs 19% in eyes without cataract surgery). When the frequencies of epiretinal membranes were adjusted for age, there was little change (33% vs 21%) and the age-adjusted P value remained at <0.001. Because these data are cross-sectional, we cannot infer the temporal relationship of the association from these data, that is, which is antecedent and which is consequent.
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The article by Jiang et al1 in the April 2015 issue of Ophthalmology is beautifully done. The authors are to be congratulated for commenting that the rim width “decreased” rather than the rim getting “thinner.” Thickness and width are not synonymous. The optic nerve head has both width and thickness, or narrowness and thinness. The “cup” of the optic nerve can become deeper (i.e., a change in thickness) or wider (i.e., a change in the lateral direction, not the anterior–posterior direction). The finding that width of the neural retinal rim becomes narrower in response to short-term elevations of intraocular pressure is a powerful commentary on the plasticity of the optic nerve head.
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We thank Professor Spaeth for his interest in our study and we fully agree with his comments on the plasticity of the optic nerve head as shown by the width of the neuroretinal rim of the optic nerve head getting narrower in response to a short-term increase in intraocular pressure.1,2 We also fully agree on the terminology he recommends, using the term narrowing for a decrease in the neuroretinal rim width in radial direction, and of using the term thinning for a decrease in the thickness of the rim as measured in sagittal direction.