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Credit Designation Statement: Amedco designates these enduring material videos for a maximum of .25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credits^TM each. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

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Target Audience: Ophthalmologists with an interest in cataract surgery.

Learning Objectives: To demonstrate and explain methods to safely perform phacoemulsification in an eye with very advanced corneal endothelial dystrophy, pseudoexfoliation,and zonular laxity that prevented nucleus rotation. In addition, the patient exhibited considerable head motion during the procedure.

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