April 2014
Volume 55, Issue 13
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ARVO Annual Meeting Abstract  |   April 2014
Prophylactic nepafenac in preventing postoperative macular edema after uneventful cataract surgery
Author Affiliations & Notes
  • MELANTHO CHOULIDOU
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Athanasios Vachtsevanos
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
    OPHTHALMICA Eye Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Efi Karakosta
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
    OPHTHALMICA Eye Clinic, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Antonia-Ioanna Vasilopoulou
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Lazaros Kazantzidis
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Dimitrios Tsakpinis
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Alexandros Polychronakos
    Eye Clinic "O Agios Dimitrios" General Hospital, Thessaloniki, Greece
  • Footnotes
    Commercial Relationships MELANTHO CHOULIDOU, None; Athanasios Vachtsevanos, None; Efi Karakosta, None; Antonia-Ioanna Vasilopoulou, None; Lazaros Kazantzidis, None; Dimitrios Tsakpinis, None; Alexandros Polychronakos, None
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Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science April 2014, Vol.55, 2549. doi:
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      MELANTHO CHOULIDOU, Athanasios Vachtsevanos, Efi Karakosta, Antonia-Ioanna Vasilopoulou, Lazaros Kazantzidis, Dimitrios Tsakpinis, Alexandros Polychronakos; Prophylactic nepafenac in preventing postoperative macular edema after uneventful cataract surgery. Invest. Ophthalmol. Vis. Sci. 2014;55(13):2549.

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Abstract

Purpose: To Study the effectiveness of prophylactic nonsteroidal antiinflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as nepafenac, after uneventful cataract surgery on retina thickness and macular volume one month postoperatively.

Methods: We studied 116 eyes of patients with no ophthalmological history who underwent uneventful phacoemulsification surgery and intraocular lens implantation (IOL). Patients were randomized and divided into 2 subgroups A1 and A2. In the first subgroup A1 patients received topical nepafenac for a month beginning on the first postoperative day of surgery and administered one eye drop three times a day. In the second subgroup A2, no NSAIDs were administered. Retina thickness and macular volume were measured by Spectral cSLO / OCT (Opko) preoperatively and one month postoperatively.

Results: Each study group included 58 patients. One month after surgery, the statistical analysis of the results showed no significant difference between the values of retina thickness and macular volume in both subgroups (A1, A2).

Conclusions: One month after uneventful cataract surgery and IOL implantation in patients with no ophthalmological history there was no significant difference in the values of retina thickness and macular volume among patients treated with nepafenac and those who were not treated with NSAIDs. Nepafenac was well tolerated with minimal side effects. In patients without any risk factors undergoing routine cataract surgery prophylaxis with NSAIDs is not recommended.

Keywords: 445 cataract • 552 imaging methods (CT, FA, ICG, MRI, OCT, RTA, SLO, ultrasound) • 585 macula/fovea  
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