Dr. Arup Chakrabarti

Senior consultant, Cataract and glaucoma services, Chakrabarti Eye Care Centre, Trivandrum-695030, Kerala, India

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Dr Arup Chakrabarti is a senior consultant and Director of Chakrabarti Eye Care Centre, Trivandrum. His field of interest is complex cataract surgery and he has an abiding interest in glaucoma. He is a passionate teacher and has conducted 210 Instruction Courses as Chief Instructor or Instructor in various prestigious International Meetings including ASCRS, ESCRS, APAO, AAO, WOC, AIOS. He has received academic awards and recognition from various international and national organizations including Senior Achievement Award - AAO, Achievement Award - AAO, Achievement Award - APAO (2013), BPOS at the ASCRS Meeting (2009), Malayali Business Achievement Award (Dubai) Oct 2010 and 10 Named Oration Awards. He has been elected as a member to the highly prestigious & Exclusive International Intraocular Implant Club (IIIC) 2015.Dr Arup has edited 3 books Cataract Surgery in Diseased Eyes, (Jaypee 2014) Posterior Capsular Rent -Genesis to Management (Springer 2017) and Posterior Segment Complications of Cataract Surgery (Springer 2020). He has been an invited faculty in the APACRS, WOC, SOE and APAO annual meetings. He is a reviewer for Prestigious Journals including Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, Indian Journal of Ophthalmology, BMJ Open Ophthalmology, American Journal of Ophthalmology Case Reports, Ophthalmology Case Reports, Eye. Has contributed videos in Advanced Video Atlas Series (Slack Publishers), various text books on Phacoemulsification and Video Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery published By Dr Robert Osher. Dr Arup has given more than 1500 presentations as faculty for Workshops and Instruction Courses in various State/ Zonal/ National/ International Conferences. He has also been invited to perform live surgery demonstration at various conferences. He has more than 76 Publications in International. National and State Journals and has contributed more than 30 book chapters. He has presented 107 Free Papers, 22 Posters and 111 Videos in State/ Zonal/ National/ International conferences. He has brought out teaching videos in various aspects of Phaco and its complications.

  1. Articles 20 Jul 2021 11 min read

    Ten Pearls for the Management of Posterior Capsular Rupture

    Posterior capsular rupture (PCR) is an important complication of cataract surgery whose timely recognition and appropriate management can ensure a good visual outcome. Here are ten pearls for its prevention and management. Pearl 1: Understand the risk/predisposing factors It is imperative to assess the preoperative and intra-operative risk to prevent the development of a PCR. Elderly, anxious, and uncooperative patients are at a higher risk of developing posterior capsular rupture. Extraocular factors include a deep socket, narrow palpebral fissures, exaggerated bell’s phenomenon, hazy cornea, and intraocular factors are poor mydriasis, shallow or excessively deep anterior chamber, pseudoexfoliation, and type of cataract (like posterior polar, traumatic, post-intravitreal injections, intumescent or hard cataract), previous vitrectomy or oil-filled eyes. Surgical factors like inexperience of the surgeon, leaking incisions, small capsulorhexis, radial tears in rhexis, fluid imbalance in

    Dr. Arup Chakrabarti · Dr. Nirupama Kasturi
  2. Articles 1 Apr 2021 9 min read

    Ten Pearls for Phacoemulsification in a Soft Cataract

    Soft cataracts are usually seen in pediatric or young adult patients. We encounter them more frequently nowadays due to the increasing patient awareness and evolving lifestyle requirements which bring the patients earlier to the clinic. Another important reason behind the increasing number of soft cataracts in our surgical practice is the fact that the number of pars plana vitrectomies is increasing and we tend to perform combined cataract surgery with pars plana vitrectomy in patients with early cataract. Soft cataract phaco can be quite challenging especially in situations where the pupil starts coming down in the face of an uncooperative patient and positive posterior pressure during surgery. It is no surprise that soft cataract has been termed as “Neither Here-Nor-There” cataract! We will be offering 10 pearls on how to successfully manage such cases with good outcomes. Pearl 1: Need for precise IOL calculations: Most soft cataracts encountered in younger visually active patients c

    Dr. Arup Chakrabarti · Dr. Nirupama Kasturi