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Pengaruh Operasi Katarak Insisi Lebar terhadap Sensibilitas Kornea dan Kejadian Dry Eye (The Effect of Cataract Wide Incision to the Corneal Sensibility and Dry Eyes)

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Background: Cataract surgery is performed to rehabilitate the visual acuity. Some atients' complain dry eye symptoms after surgery. Therefore, it is assumed that cataract surgery can decrease corneal sensibility thus cause dry eye. The purpose of th is study was to investigate the decrease in corneal sensibility of patients before and after cataract surgery and determine whether the decrease in corneal sensibility has correlation with the dry eye. Methods : It was a quasi experiment using pre and post test design. Seventy subjects underwent corneal sensibility examination, Tear break up time (TBUT), Schirmer I test and rose bengal stainingwere condueted before operation, at second week, first month, second month and third month after extracapsular cataract surgery.
Results : Forty men (57.1%) and 30 women (42.9%) were participated in this study. The corneal sensibility decreased significantly in all quadrans (p

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Medica Hospitalia: Journal of Clinical Medicine,

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Semarang : Medica Hospitalia-Dr. Kariadi Hospital., 2012

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5p

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2301-4369

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CATARACT-SURGERY
DRY EYE DYNDROME

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