Ophthalmology Times interviews Dr. Alex Dastgheib about his breakthrough new classifications of complex cataracts and his approach to restore eyesight through new procedures.
See the full interview here.
The 325 cases were consecutively performed by Alex Dastgheib, MD, ABO, over a period of 8 years, from 2013 to 2020, and is the largest such case series reported in the world, according to databases Google Scholar, PubMed and a few others.
Key takeaways:
- All cases were successful with a posterior chamber intraocular lens placed in every eye.
- Through slightly different surgical techniques for each subgroup Dastgheib believes that helped to have such phenomenal results.
- The results have been as good as the average cataract and the complication rate has been lower than the average cataract, including two (2) out of 325 posterior capsule ruptures.
"I feel that you can make a complex or complicated case into something simple by following the surgical classification techniques. I think even a good resident should be able to be successful at these cataract surgeries if they follow the steps."
