Film 80390: Phacoemulsification without Viscoelastic Substance: Intumescent Cataract | ASCRS
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Film 80390: Phacoemulsification without Viscoelastic Substance: Intumescent Cataract
April 2022
Meeting: 2022 ASCRS Annual Meeting
Presenting Author: German R. Bianchi, MD
Category: New Techniques
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Intumescent cataract surgery is a challenge. Phacoemulsification can be performed avoiding viscoelastic substance, maintaining the anterior chamber with balance salt solution circulation, creating a positive pressure. After dyeing with trypan blue the anterior capsule, with this technique is easy to avoid the "Argentinian sign" with the aid of the centripetal liquid circulation.

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