Aim: To evaluate life quality of elderly people with acquired low vision before and after hearing and speech intervention. Methods: This was a descriptive cross-sectional study. The study was made with 52 elderly people with acquired low vision. Two questionnaires that measures life quality were used in this study. The first was ‘Low Quality of Life Vision (LVQOL)’ and the second the ‘National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire (NEIVFQ-25)’. The study included people with more than 60 years with acquired […]

Purpose: To evaluate the postoperative results when using the toric IOL during phacoemulsification. Methods: Retrospective cohort based study on the 95 eyes of 67 patients, selected by a census. Analyzed patients with cataracts who had undergone phacoemulsification placement with AcrySof® toric IOL from january 2010 to december 2012. For analysis purposes, it was considered successful when the residual astigmatism was d”0.75 diopters. The Wilcoxon test for related samples was used to compare non-parametric samples, while the Student T test was […]