Rosario Musumeci, Pasquale Troiano, Marianna Martinelli, Matteo Piovella, Claudio Carbonara, Scipione Rossi, Giovanni Alessio, Luisa Molteni, Claudio Giuseppe Molteni, Laura Saderi, Giovanni Sotgiu, Clementina Elvezia Cocuzza
A multicenter, nonrandomized, prospective, controlled study was conducted to evaluate, as perioperative prophylactic treatment, the anti-infective effectiveness of 0.66% povidone-iodine eye drops (IODIM® ) against the bacterial flora of the conjunctival surface of patients who undergo cataract surgery. Eye drops containing 0.66% povidone-iodine were applied to the eye undergoing cataract surgery; the untreated contralateral eye was used as control. One hundred and twenty patients set to receive unilateral cataract surgery were enrolled in 5 Italian Ophthalmology Centers and pretreated for three days with 0...
May 19, 2021: Journal of Clinical Medicine