Cataract surgery is the most frequent surgical intervention, with approximately 700,000 operations per year in Germany alone. One of the most serious complications is retinal detachment, with a reported incidence rate of pseudophakic retinal detachment of 0.75-1.65%. We report the case of a patient who suffered from a simultaneous bilateral pseudophakic retinal detachment. Interestingly, the bi...

OBJECTIVE To report three cases of delayed choroidal detachment after treatment with topical prostaglandin analogs. MATERIAL AND METHOD Intervention three case reports. Four eyes of three patients with chronic angle closure glaucoma developed choroidal detachment after using topical prostaglandin analogs. RESULTS Three patients with chronic angle closure glaucoma developed chroidal detachme...

PURPOSE To report the results obtained in a non-comparative series of pseudophakic patients with retinal detachment (RD) treated with vitrectomy with no associated scleral procedures. METHODS The clinical records of all pseudophakic patients with RD treated with vitrectomy were evaluated by one of the authors. Patients with primary regmatogenous RD with no signs of proliferative vitreoretinop...

BACKGROUND To examine the efficacy of intraocular lens implantation on visual rehabilitation and ocular growth in children with unilateral idiopathic cataracts. METHODS Preoperative characteristics, visual outcome and postoperative refraction change were analyzed through a retrospective study of the charts of children who underwent cataract removal and primary intraocular lens implantation fo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of posterior capsulotomy on macular thickness, intraocular pressure and endothelial cell loss in pseudophakic patients with posterior capsule opacification using the other eye of every patient as a control. METHODS An observational prospective study was conducted on 31 pseudophakic patients with posterior capsular opacification in one eye, using the other eye...

Purpose To report the efficacy and safety of interferon alpha 2b in the treatment of pseudophakic cystoid macular edema resistant to conventional therapy. Observations A 64-year-old patient presented with pseudophakic cystoid macular edema in her left eye, which developed two months after an uncomplicated cataract surgery and was resistant to multiple topical NSAIDs and multiple intravitreal ...

To evaluate the effects of filtering short wavelength light on visual performance under intense light conditions among pseudophakic patients previously implanted with a clear intraocular lens (IOL). This was a patient-masked, randomized crossover study conducted at 6 clinical sites in the United States between September 2013 and January 2014. One hundred fifty-four bilaterally pseudophakic pati...


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