VITREOUS detachment is a constant accompaniment and thus a cardinal symptom of retinal detachment, the importance of which is being increasingly stressed by modern authors. It has been indicted as one of the causes of retinal detachment, its action being enhanced by vitreo-retinal adhesions, congenital or acquired. It is less known that all aphakic eyes show some degree of vitreous detachment, ...

We report the correction of aphakia using an iris-claw, aphakic intraocular lens (IOL) fixated in a retropupillary location in a 17-year-old young man who suffered blunt trauma to his eye 5 months after penetrating keratoplasty (PKP). There were no intraoperative complications. At 21 months after implantation, the patient's uncorrected distance visual acuity was 20/28; his corrected distance vi...

Traumatic aniridia and aphakia occurred in the left eye of a 22-year-old man who had had Artisan (Ophtec) phakic intraocular lens (IOL) implantation. Aniridia was probably the result of the relatively large wound used to implant the nonfoldable IOL. Although the eye had severe traumatic damage, vision was recoverable through a 2-stage procedure of vitrectomy and subsequent scleral suture fixati...

zurdex® (Allergan Inc., Irvine, CA, USA) is a biodegradable mplant for the sustained release of intravitreal dexamethaone which has recently been approved as a treatment for acular edema secondary to retinal venous occlusion and n posterior uveitis of non-infectious cause.1 Ozurdex® has lso demonstrated its efficiency in diabetic and pseudophakic acular edema. Before it was placed on the market...

The use of hydrophilic acrylates (POIYHEMA) in the composition of contact lenses was first described by Wichterle and Lim (I960). The development of a spun cast lens has taken several years. The basic technique by Wichterle has now been extended by the manufacturers, Bausch and Lomb. Whilst the low minus powers are available in more than one back curve fitting, the high minus and aphakic series...