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The oculocardiac reflex in cataract surgery in the elderly
  1. GAO LEI,
  2. WANG QING,
  3. XU HAIFENG
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital
  2. Yantai 264000, Shandong Province, P R China
  3. Department of Cardiovasology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital
  4. Yantai 264000, Shandong Province, P R China
  1. TAO ZHIGANG,
  2. WU FALIANG
  1. Department of Ophthalmology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital
  2. Yantai 264000, Shandong Province, P R China
  3. Department of Cardiovasology, Yantai Yuhuangding Hospital
  4. Yantai 264000, Shandong Province, P R China
  1. Gao Lei, MD.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bjo.81.7.614

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    Editor,—According to a national sample survey of the disabled in 1987, cataract was the primary cause of blindness in China.1 Since manipulations such as retrobulbar injection, ocular compression, and traction of the extraocular muscle were involved in cataract surgery, oculocardiac reflex could not be avoided theoretically. We have conducted a study to determine the incidence of the reflex in cataract surgery in the elderly.

    Thirty patients over the age …

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