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Section Type: RESULTS

Text: Adjusting for age at time of surgery, gender, interval between preoperative and postoperative visits, and type and severity of cataract, the mean changes in visual acuity were as follows : eyes with mild AMD (n = 30) gained 11. 2 letters (95 % confidence interval [CI], 6. 9-15. 5), eyes with moderate AMD (n = 346) gained 11. 1 letters (95 % CI, 9. 1-13. 2), eyes with severe AMD (n = 462) gained 8. 7 letters (95 % CI, 6. 7-10. 7), eyes with noncentral geographic atrophy (n = 70) gained 8. 9 letters (95 % CI, 5. 8-12. 1), and eyes with advanced AMD (central geographic atrophy, neovascular disease, or both ; n = 324) gained 6. 8 letters (95 % CI, 4. 9-8. 8).