This study set out to determine if adhesive could be used instead of sutures for fixing epikeratophakia lenticules in place. Three patients who had previously undergone removal of a traumatic cataract, and who were contact lens intolerant, each had a specially designed lyophilized epikeratophakia graft glued onto their aphakic eye. Adhesive was prepared by separation of cryoprecipitate from pla...

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 ...

A population based survey of blindness and eye disease has been conducted throughout the whole country of The Gambia, and 8174 people were examined. The prevalence of blindness (best acuity less than 3/60) was 0.7% and low vision (6/24-3/60) 1.4%. The causes of blindness were cataract (55%), non-trachomatous corneal opacity/phthisis (20%), and trachoma (17%). An estimated 5500 people in The Gam...

Stintzy (i966), in a review of 450 cases of eye injuries, mostly unilateral, in children, reported the development of cataract in 26 per cent. Traumatic cataract, if not complicated by severe damage to other structures of the eye and if successfully treated by surgery, presents the surgeon and the child with the problems of unilateral aphakia. The optical correction of the latter is the crux of...