To evaluate the influences of uneventful phacoemulsification on the anterior segment parameters obtained with Pentacam-Scheimflug and intraocular pressure

Purpose: To evaluate the influences of uneventful phacoemulfication on the anterior segment parameters obtained with Pentacam and intraocular pressure (IOP).Methods: Forty-two eyes of 34 patients (26 male and 8 female) evaluated for preoperatively, and 1, 3, and 6 months postoperatively with the Pentacam (rotating Scheimpflug camera; Oculus, Wetzlar, Germany), and IOP was measured with Goldmann applanation tonometer. The nonparametric paired t-test was used to compare preoperative and 1, 3, and 6 months postoperative anterior chamber depht (ACD), anterior chamber volume (ACV), anterior chamber angle (ACA) width, central corneal thickness (CCT), pupil size, and IOP. Pearson correlation test was used to evaluate the relationship between the IOP and ACD, ACV, and ACA width.Results: The difference between preoperative ACD, ACV, ACA, and IOP values and postoperative 1, 3, and 6 months ACD, ACV, ACA, and IOP values were statistically significant (p<0.05). The differences between preoperatively and postoperatively at 1st, 3rd, and 6th months? CCT, and pupil size measurements were not statistically significant (p<0.05). IOP decrease was not correlated with the changes in ACD, ACV, and ACA (p>0.05)Conclusions: Uneventful phacoemulsification significantly reduced IOP, increased ACD, ACV, and widened the ACA but CCT, and pupil size values alteration were not statistically significant. ACD, ACV, ACA, and IOP alteration remains stable after first month of surgery.