Background:
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP) is a clinically common congenital retinal disease, with a incidence of about 1/4000(1). The pathological manifestations include progressive dysfunction of retinal pigment epithelial cell and photoreceptor cell, and patients tend to have night blindness, reduced vision field and poor vision. Currently, there is no effective treatment or prevention measures for RP, and measures such as stem cell transplantation and gene therapy are still in the research stage(2). In addition to primary retinal damage, RP is usually accompanied by other eye diseases. Cataract is the most common complication of RP. Patients with RP complicated with cataract are young in age and the condition progresses rapidly, which has a great impact on the remaining vision of patients, and usually requires surgical treatment. This paper retrospectively analyzed the vision, intraocular pressure (IOP), corneal endothelial cell count (ECC), macular morphology and postoperative complications of 63 patients (84 eyes) who underwent phacoemulsification and intraocular lens (IOL) implantation in our hospital from January 2014 to October 2019. The results are as follows.