The determination of macular diseases with the preoperative optical coherence tomography in patients undergoing cataract surgery

imum.However, the macula should be healthy to obtain satisfactory results with multifocal lenses. 2 Thus, in cases planned to undergo routine cataract surgery, the preoperative determination of macular pathologies is important in making the decision for surgery, estimating the postoperative visual level, and determining the frequency of follow up. 3 Biomicroscopic fundus examination is the basic diagnostic method to detect macular pathologies in cataract patients.However, some retinal and vitreoretinal interface patholo-IntroductIon Cataract is the leading cause of treatable sight loss in adult patients. 1Phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation is the most frequently applied surgical treatment technique.Although surgery is usually performed without complications, postoperative high refractive error and other accompanying eye pathologies, especially macular pathologies, have a negative effect on the visual prognosis.With advances in surgical techniques and the development of different types of IOL (multifocal, toric), postoperative refractive error can now be reduced to a min-CliniCal StudieS