We report a 64-year-old diabetic woman who developed neovascularization of the posterior capsule 2 years after cataract surgery and intraocular lens implantation. The patient was treated with single injection of 1.25 mg of intravitreal bevacizumab (Avastin) via pars plana. After one week, complete regression of the posterior capsule neovascularization was achieved allowing us to perform Nd: YAG...

Both choroidal neovascularization during pregnancy, and choroidal neovascularization following implantation of phakic intraocular lenses have been reported in the literature. To our knowledge, this is the first case reported of a gravid woman developing choroidal neovascularization in an eye with a phakic intraocular lens. A 31-year-old woman became aware of her pregnancy three weeks after plac...

A heterogeneous group of conditions can cause changes to the intraocular lens (IOL) during or after implantation in uneventful cataract surgery. We describe a series of 5 patients presenting distinctive deposits on the surface of hydrophilic intraocular lenses, implanted during routine cataract surgery, with a follow-up of 1 to 24 months. Disposable forceps were found to be the source of the pi...

Abbreviations: UGH: Uveitis-Glaucoma-Hyphema; IOL: Intraocular Lens; ACIOL: Anterior Chamber Intraocular Lens; PCIOL: Posterior Chamber Intraocular Lens; GCA: Giant Cell Arteritis; NVI: Neovascularization of the Iris; YAG: Yttrium Aluminum Garnet; OD: Right Eye; OS: Left Eye; HbA1c: Hemoglobin A1C; PEE: Punctate Epithelial Erosion; IEI: Illinois Eye Institute; QD: 1 time a day; BID: 2 times a d...

Divergent contrast sensitivity findings have been reported in patients with intraocular lens implants. In this study, contrast sensitivity to stationary sine-wave gratings of six spatial frequencies from 0.5 to 22.8 cycles/degree was measured psychophysically in 13 patients with posterior chamber intraocular lens implants and in 10 controls. Corrected visual acuity was 0.7 to 1.0 in the intraoc...

A woman presented with a painful eye 6 weeks after cataract extraction and intraocular lens implantation. In the past she had had a sector iridectomy for iris bombé caused by chronic anterior uveitis. On examination the three central corneal sutures were absent, whilst the medial and lateral sutures had broken and were protruding from the section. The eye was quiet and the section intact. Combi...

We report three patients with deposition of pseudoexfoliation (PXF) material on intraocular lens years after uneventful cataract surgery. PXF was not present before the cataract surgery. The PXF material was found on the anterior surface of the intraocular lens in the first patient and on the posterior surface as well in the other two patients. All the patients had a polymethylmethacrylate intr...

Introduction: We report the case of a patient in whom simultaneous toric phakic intraocular lens removal and phacoemulsification with toric intraocular lens implantation were beneficial for reducing pre-existing astigmatism and acquiring good visual outcomes in eyes with implantable collamer lens-induced cataract and astigmatism. Case presentation: A 53-year-old woman had undergone toric implan...