The Effect of Ocular Massage in Cataract Extraction.

Kwon, Dal Man; Oh, Jun Sup; Suhk, Jae Soo; Oh, Bum Hi; Han, Pyo Sup

Original Article

Journal of the Korean Ophthalmological Society 1968;9(1):20-23.
Published online January 1, 2001.

The Effect of Ocular Massage in Cataract Extraction.

Dal Man Kwon, Jun Sup Oh, Jae Soo Suhk, Bum Hi Oh, Pyo Sup Han

Department of Ophthalmology, Kyungpook National University, School of Medicine Taegu, Korea.

백내장수술시 (白內障手術時) 안구 (眼球) ( Massage ) 의 효과에 (效果) 대하여 (對)

Abstract

The authors have studied on the effect of digital pressure on eyeball under the surface anesthesia instead of other reducing agents of intraocular pressure and retrobulbar anesthesia in order to lower the intraocular pressure as a preoperative procedure of cataract extraction in 26 eyeballs of 24 patients and following results were obtained: 1. The authors had intraocular pressure lowered till averaging 10.8 mmHg (average 13.5 ~ 8.0 mmHg) of original pressure by ocular massage. 2. Massage on eyeball was thought to be a satisfactory preoperative procedure to perform cataract extractIon. 3. In operative complications, loss of vitreous and rupture of capsule were noticed 11.5% and 60% respectively. and it was thought to be caused by technical failure in surgeons. In view of this fact we could not find that the loss of vitreous was caused by intraocular pressure below 13.5 mmHg.