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JOURNAL OF CATARACT AND REFRACTIVE SURGERY
Volume 46, Issue 7, Pages 961-966Publisher
LIPPINCOTT WILLIAMS & WILKINS
DOI: 10.1097/j.jcrs.0000000000000207
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- Umea University
- Vasterbotten County Council
- foundation Ogonfonden
- Cronqvists stiftelse
- Insamlingsstiftelsen
- Carmen och Bertil Regners stiftelse
- Swedish National Cataract Register
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Purpose: To investigate the risk for corneal transplantation after phacoemulsification related to corneal guttata. Setting: Forty-nine Swedish cataract surgical units and 7 Swedish cornea transplantation units. Design: Registry-based cohort study. Methods: Patient data from the Swedish National Cataract Registry between 2010 and 2012 were linked with data from the Swedish Cornea Transplant Registry between 2010 and September 2017. Data from cataract patients were linked with data from patients who underwent corneal transplantation because of endothelial failure. Triple procedures and other surgical methods for cataract extraction other than phacoemulsification were excluded. If both eyes had surgery, 1 eye was randomly selected from the registry to obtain unrelated samples. The incidence was calculated per 10 000 person years, and Poisson regression analysis was used to investigate the risk for corneal transplantation because of endothelial failure after phacoemulsification. Results: Altogether, data from 276 362 cataract patients were linked with data from 2091 patients who underwent corneal transplantation. The incidence rate of corneal transplantation after phacoemulsification among patients with corneal guttata was 88 per 10 000 person years (95% CI, 74.5-103.1). The annual incidence rate was highest within the first year and diminished thereafter. The incidence rate of corneal transplantation among patients without corneal guttata was 1.4 per 10 000 person years (95% CI, 1.2-1.6). Phacoemulsification in patients with corneal guttata was associated with corneal transplantation with an adjusted relative risk of 68.2 (95% CI, 54.0-86.2). Conclusions: The relative risk for corneal transplantation after phacoemulsification was 68.2 times higher for patients with corneal guttata than that for those without. Still, most of the patients with corneal guttata did not undergo corneal transplantation during the study period. Copyright (C) 2020 Published by Wolters Kluwer on behalf of ASCRS and ESCRS
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