Aphakic detachment: a thing of the past?

Aphakic retinal detachment.

A study of 132 cases of aphakic retinal detachment (ARD) following mainly intracapsular cataract surgery has been made. Forty-nine cases (37%) were found to have vitreous incarcerated into the cataract section out of a total of 54 (41%) cases who had suffered a vitreous complication during cataract surgery. A study of the characteristics of ARD reveals that those cases having had a vitreous com...

Prevalence of aphakic retinal detachment.

Surgery of aphakic retinal detachment.

In a prospective study 84 patients with aphakic retinal detachment were treated either by local scleral buckling alone or combined with an encirclement. The rate of surgical reattachment of the retina was found to be similar with either technique over a minimum follow-up period of one year. Simplicity and a low incidence of serious complications of the local procedure merit its application as t...

Choroidal detachment in aphakic uveitis.

The presence of choroidal detachment in an eye is a familiar finding most commonly seen after intraocular operation, when it occurs with a shallow or absent anterior chamber and ocular hypotony. Fuchs (I900) quoted an incidence of only 4-7 per cent. after cataract extraction, but a more accurate figure is the 59 per cent. given by Venco and Giardini (I947) relating to the immediate postoperativ...

Vitreous Detachment in Aphakic Eyes.

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, ...