Pain Expression in the Perioperative Period of Cataract Surgery

Summary

Patients having cataract extraction in the second eye under topical anesthesia with monitored anesthesia care often report increased pain and awareness relative to the first surgery in the fellow eye, despite similar operative and anesthetic conditions. The purpose of this study is to investigate the pathogenesis of this phenomenon.

Timeline

Start

2013-01

Primary completion

2013-05

Completion

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Publications

• Zhu XJ, Wolff D, Zhang KK, He WW, Sun XH, Lu Y, Zhou P. Molecular Inflammation in the Contralateral Eye After Cataract Surgery in the First Eye. Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci. 2015 Aug;56(9):5566-73. doi: 10.1167/iovs.15-16531.

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