We present a technique for the surgical correction of aphakia that allows intrascleral fixation of a posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) without sutures. The technique is useful in situations in which one haptic has to be fixated and capsule support is adequate for fixation of the second haptic. The haptic is externalized with a 25-gauge needle; no surgical instrumentation other than that ...

SINCE contact lenses have been used for monocular conditions of impaired vision in which the eye is divergent, e.g., aphakia and corneal scars, it has been found that although vision could be improved the affected eye remained divergent. Some of these eyes, i.e. those with small degrees of divergence, attained single binocular vision with orthoptic treatment; others with larger angles had to be...

Cyclic esotropia is a rare and poorly understood condition normally treated by correcting the deviation measured on the squinting day. Control in some patients with this condition can be gained by correcting their refractive errors, thereby improving acuity. We report on an adult patient who developed cyclic esotropia after unilateral traumatic aphakia with failed contact lens wear whose squint...

A series of 67 cases of epikeratophakia is presented with an average time from surgery of 12.2 months. For aphakia there was a delay in the recovery of vision, but by nine months 83% of 57 patients achieved an acuity equal to, or within 1 line of, the preoperative value. 57% were corrected to within 3 dioptres of emmetropia, but in the latter part of the series 75% were within this range. Astig...

Phacoemulsification with an intraocular lens implant is a safe and effective means of correction of visual loss from cataract. The high frequency of this procedure world wide means inevitable direct surgical complications will be numerous even though infrequent. The approach to correcting aphakia following complicated cataract surgery is dependent on multiple factors including the degree to whi...

Retinal detachment after cataract extraction occurred in nine out of 136 eyes with myopia of 6 or more dioptress (6-7 per cent), during a follow-up period of 1 1/2-9 1/2 years. Five of the nine detachments occurred within 3 months of cataract extraction. All patients with retinal detachment were under the age of 63 years. Relatively young patients with high myopia bear a special risk of develop...

purpose: to report the outcomes of combined aniridic intraocular lens (iol) implantation via scleral fixation and penetrating keratoplasty (pkp) in three patients.  methods: this study included 3 patients who required pkp and had aniridia and/or aphakia requiring iol implantation. all subjects underwent aniridic iol scleral fixation after vitrectomy and removal of capsular remnants followed by ...

Background/Aim Approaching art from the standpoint of optics and the artist’s eye pathology can sometimes explain the shift of the spectral colors in the work of some artists with cataract and aphakia. This may not be obvious in the paintings of other artists with the same eye pathology. The aim of this study was to create a timeline from the recently obtained details of the cataract surgery, h...

UNIOCULAR aphakia is a condition of artificial anisometropia which very often causes great annoyance to the sufferer, who finds the aphakic eye of little use if the other eye is normal, and often complains of lack of binocular function and difficulty in judging distances, especially at close range. If contact lenses have been tried with unsatisfactoryresults, it seems justifiable especially in ...