Dog Cataract - Phacoemulsification

Stout the dog's left eye having cataract surgery and synthetic lens placement on the 14th June 2007 at our clinic in the UK . I would welcome any comments / criticisms about the surgical technique

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• dog
• cataract
• phacoemulsification
• canine
• pet
• optivet

[pizcolq]

Nice video, thanks. Can you tell what is your preoperative/intraoperative mydriasis protocol?

[Optivet]

We give one drop of phenylephrine, tropicamide and flurbiprofen alternativley every 10 minutes for 2 hours prior to surgery. Intraoperatively it usually only requires the weight of the viscoelastic to dilate the pupil that last bit. If not then I use 1:10000 epinephrine to effect.

[funner123er]

dont that hurt the dog?

[Optivet]

He is anaesthetised and the post operative pain is very minor and controlled easily with pain relief medication

[troymasters]

My miniature schnauzer is four years old and suddenly appears to have a cataract; one vet called it hyper mature but also suggested it may be something else...so I am taking her to an ophthamologist for diagnosis...is the surgery as fast as what you showed here and is it painful? Is it worth it for the dog?

[Optivet]

Thanks for the question. I cannot comment on individual cases but your ophthalmologist should go through the pros and cons with you so that you are happy with the decision that you take either way. Surgery is not particularly painful - indeed in some humans it has been done without any anaesthetic at all. As regards speed of surgery what you don't see here is all of the setup to get to the start of surgery so it does take quite a bit longer in total. Good luck

[PAMAROSHOUSE]

i noticed that the steps on this animal procedure is almost identical to a human cataract w/pol.i used to assist cataract surgeons for many years.good job sir.

[funner123er]

ok thanks for the info

[drrobscott]

Thank you for that, very interesting

[Optivet]

Interestingly that doesn't work well in dogs. Because the lens is much more spherical, the air bubble displaces the vision blue from the central capsule so that it becomes ineffective in the area you need in most!