Advantages observed with combined OVDs, trypan blue in manual capsulorrhexis

LONDON — The combination of two different ophthalmic viscosurgical devices with trypan blue led to a safe anterior lens capsule indentation and reduced intraoperative complications, according to data presented here at the European Society for Cataract and Refractive Surgeons Congress.Fritz H. Hengerer, MD, and colleagues used a 1% medium-viscous ophthalmic viscosurgical device (OVD) in one group of patients, and both a medium- and high-viscous OVD were used to create a central indentation of the anterior lens capsule before a circular curvilinear capsulorhexis was performed in a second group.