Facoemulsificação em um cão

Abstract

Cataract is characterized as a common lens disorder in small animals and it is considered one of the main causes of treatable blindness in dogs. There are many internal and external factors that cause cataracts, but hereditary or genetic causes are the most common. Surgery is the only effective method in the treatment of cataracts, and facoemulsification is the best technique, which esults in the cataract treatment solution. The objective of this work is report the case of a 6-year-old Shih Tzu canine which was seen at the Ophthalmology Sector of the University Veterinary Hospital (HVU) and which treated bilateral immature cataract. After diagnosis and complementary tests, the patient was subjected to phacoemulsification without intraocular lens implantation. The technique was correctly performed, at first, on the right eye and, after two months, the same technique was performed on the left eye. On the sixth postoperative day, the patient showed improvements in vision, in each eye, and did not present complications by the technique. Thus, it is concluded that the use of this technique provided well-being for the animal and demonstrated great results in the return of the vision.