Outpatient anterior chamber lens implantation

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Abstract
100 outpatient and 143 inpatient intracapsular cataract extractions with anterior chamber lens implantation were examined 6 months post-operatively 74 (74%) in the former and 107 (75%) in the latter achieved visual acuity .gtoreq. 0.5. Excluding non-surgical pathology, 93% in the outpatient group and 98% in the inpatient group had a visual acuity .gtoreq. 0.5 (P = 0.12). There were no significant differences in post-operative comlications except for the incidence of cystoid macular edema. Six (6%) of the outpatient and1 (0.7%) of the inpatient procedures had cystoid macular edema that resulted in a visual acuity below 0.5 (P = 0.02).