- Title
- Risk of age-related macular degeneration 4 to 5 years after cataract surgery
- Creator
- Wang, Jin Jin; Fong, Calvin Size-Un; Burlutsky, George; Cugati, Sudha; Tan, Ava G.; Rochtchina, Elena; Arnold, Jennifer; Smith, Wayne; Mitchell, Paul
- Relation
- Ophthalmology Vol. 123, Issue 8, p. 1829-1830.e1
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ophtha.2016.02.003
- Publisher
- Elsevier
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2016
- Description
- The potential for eyes after cataract surgery to have an increased risk of progression of age-related macular degeneration (AMD) has long been of concern. We previously reported 3-year follow-up findings from the Australian Cataract Surgery and Age-related Macular Degeneration (CSAMD) study showing no increased incidence of early or late AMD in eyes 3 years after surgery, compared with nonoperated fellow eyes of the same patients. A recent 20-year follow-up report from the Beaver Dam Eye Study (BDES) once again confirmed that cataract surgery was associated with an increased incidence of late but not early AMD over the long-term. Considering that the increased late AMD incidence in operated eyes was observed ≥5 years after surgery in populationbased cohorts, we aimed to confirm our previous 3-year followup findings over 4 to 5 postoperative years in the same cohort.
- Subject
- macular degeneration; cataract surgery; age-related degeneration; postoperative
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1339294
- Identifier
- uon:28220
- Identifier
- ISSN:0161-6420
- Language
- eng
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