1476: ASCRS case 7: dense cataract tricks

Another great case from the 2022 ASCRS CataractCoach instructional course, this time focusing on dense cataracts. There are some good … More

1453: Quiz: What is your next step?

This is a tough case where the nucleus is very dense and difficult to chop, but the bigger challenge is … More

There is a pleasure in helping patients with a dense brunescent cataract: we enjoy the surgical challenge and the patient … More

Our guest surgeon is Jack Shao MD who is a faculty member at the Cole Eye Institute at the Cleveland … More

The divide and conquer technique is a tried and true method for nucleo-fractis. It works well in a variety of … More

This patient has a very dense, brunscent, fibrous cataract in the left eye. Fortunately, the right eye has a moderate … More

This is a tough case in an 87 year old patient who has a small pupil, a dense cataract, and … More

It may surprise you to know that many young ophthalmologists in the USA do not have experience performing MSICS. In … More

This video showcases the entire surgery which we are running at 2x speed so that it is just 5 minutes. … More

Our guest surgeon is Dr Érico Jun Oda from Brazil and he demonstrates an expert level cataract surgery in a … More

More than 20 years ago when I was a resident ophthalmologist at the UCLA Jules Stein Eye Institute, we performed … More

Our guest surgeon is Dr Hafidi Zouheir from Rabat, Morocco and he expertly demonstrates the horizontal chop technique for a … More

The key to splitting a brunescent cataract is to access the central endo-nucleus. This is the densest part of the … More

There is so much to be learned by watching other surgeons operate. Even after so many thousands of cataract surgeries … More

In many countries where dense, brunescent cataracts are common, the SICS (small incision cataract surgery) or MSICS (manual small incision … More

For a dense cataract, performing phaco chop is challenging because the central lens nucleus is so hard that the chop … More

This patient has been functionally blind for 10 years and presents to us with bilateral, dense, brunescent cataracts. We must … More

More than a decade ago in 2009, Dr. Bhattacharya in India described a way of using a lens snare to … More

With a dense cataract, there can be a fibrous posterior aspect of the lens nucleus which makes chopping more difficult. … More

With a very dense and fibrous cataract, using just the vacuum from the phaco tip to hold the nucleus is … More