Abstract
Anterior capsulotomy was performed by Nd-YAG laser as the pretreatment of cataract surgery in 35 cases. The linear increase of intraocular pressure after capsulotomy was observed in all 20 cases examined.
Nine of them showed values over 30mmHg. However, even in these cases significant complications such as corneal edema and the increase of vitreous pressure were not observed. Nd-YAG laser technique enabled precise anterior capsulotomy and resulted in marked decrease of after cataract compared with the can-opener method, and seems widely applicable to the pretreatment of cataract surgery.
