Jasinskas Vytautas, Misevice Ausrine, Mankauskiene Aiste
Clinic of Ophthalmology, Kaunas University of Medicine, Kaunas, Lithuania.
Medicina (Kaunas). 2006;42(5):370-6.
To review the tendencies of cataract surgery in Lithuania.
More than ten years the data are collected from all medical institutions in Lithuania, where cataract surgery is performed. Each year from 1994 standardized questionnaires are sent to all centers of the cataract surgery and afterwards collected in the database. The questionnaires contain questions regarding the incidence of cataract surgery, operation methods, the rate of applied intraocular lenses, their models, etc.
A total of 74,954 cataract operations were performed in Lithuania from 1994 till 2004. Phacoemulsification for the first was used in Lithuania in 1996. Since that time, 18,393 phacoemulsification operations have been performed. The first foldable intraocular lens was implanted in Lithuania in 1998. A total of 5,140 foldable intraocular lenses were implanted till 2005. It makes up 7.36% from total number of implanted intraocular lenses during the period under review.
We have been observing a great quantitative and qualitative increase in the amount of cataract surgeries for last ten years. This is due to the newest cataract surgery methods (manual small incision cataract surgery, phacoemulsification), introduction of viscoelastic agents, new generation lenses (foldable: acrylic, silicone), and modern phacoemulsificators to clinical practice.
回顾立陶宛白内障手术的发展趋势。
十多年来，收集了立陶宛所有开展白内障手术的医疗机构的数据。从1994年起，每年向所有白内障手术中心发放标准化问卷，之后收集到数据库中。问卷包含有关白内障手术发生率、手术方法、人工晶状体应用率、其型号等问题。
1994年至2004年期间，立陶宛共进行了74954例白内障手术。1996年立陶宛首次使用超声乳化术。自那时以来，已进行了18393例超声乳化手术。1998年立陶宛首次植入可折叠人工晶状体。截至2005年，共植入了5140枚可折叠人工晶状体。这占所审查期间植入人工晶状体总数的7.36%。
在过去十年中，我们观察到白内障手术数量在数量和质量上都有很大增长。这归因于最新的白内障手术方法（手法小切口白内障手术、超声乳化术）、粘弹性剂的引入、新一代晶状体（可折叠的：丙烯酸、硅酮）以及现代超声乳化仪应用于临床实践。
