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Focal multistriae: postoperative finding in posterior lenticonus patients
- Source :
- Journal of cataract and refractive surgery. 29(10)
- Publication Year :
- 2003
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Abstract
- A brother and sister presented with a history of difficulty reading fine print and an intolerance to glare. Family history was positive for bilateral posterior lenticonus in the mother. Biomicroscopy confirmed that each sibling had bilateral posterior lenticonus that was more easily diagnosed in the brother. Uneventful phacoemulsification was performed in each eye with a foldable acrylic posterior chamber intraocular lens (IOL) placed vertically within the capsular bag in 3 eyes and horizontally in 1 eye. On the day after surgery, biomicroscopy revealed vertical wrinkles limited to the central 2.0 mm of the posterior capsule corresponding to the cone in the eyes in which the IOLs had been vertically placed. We hypothesize that these striae occurred within the cone as a result of redistributing the usual mechanical forces associated with capsule stretch between the most distal contact points of the haptics. We believe that the appearance of these multiple striae limited to the central posterior capsule represents an unreported postoperative finding associated with posterior lenticonus.
- Subjects :
- Male
medicine.medical_specialty
Visual acuity
genetic structures
Adolescent
medicine.medical_treatment
Eye disease
Acrylic Resins
Lens Capsule, Crystalline
Visual Acuity
Lens Implantation, Intraocular
Posterior lenticonus
Ophthalmology
medicine
Humans
Postoperative Period
Lenses, Intraocular
Phacoemulsification
business.industry
Capsule
medicine.disease
eye diseases
Sensory Systems
Posterior chamber intraocular lens
Posterior capsule
Lens Diseases
Capsular bag
Surgery
Female
sense organs
medicine.symptom
business
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 08863350
- Volume :
- 29
- Issue :
- 10
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of cataract and refractive surgery
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....2bca9f3a7ebf80f5e99eb73ad1aaee73