European Congress of Ophthalmology: a Moroccan team presents an innovative cataract surgical technique

The importance of the work of the team Moroccan eye surgeons of Rabat (Pr. Mouhcine El Bakkali, Dr. Zakia Arabi and Dr. Siham Oudanane), who have worked for years on the implementation of these innovations techniqueslies in the capacity of these new techniques to facilitate certain surgeries complexes of the cataract avoiding the complications of conventional surgery in certain groups of patients.

The cataract surgery is a simple surgery and gives excellent results thanks to the introduction of new technologies both diagnostically (imagery) as well as on a therapeutic level (new implants, machines de phako, operating microscope), which theMoroccan ophthalmology.

But sometimes, cataracts are diagnosed late, or associated with ocular morbidity such as pseudo exfoliation which makes the eye more fragile and surgery more complicated with poorer results. This technical variant innovated by the Moroccan ophthalmological team makes it possible to avoid complications and make the duration of the intervention shorter and safer by avoiding maneuvers which weaken the eye.