title: The triple procedure; combined penetrating keratoplasty, cataract extraction and lens implantation.
abstract: Results of combined keratoplasty, extracapsular cataract extraction and lens implantation (triple procedure) are reported for 67 eyes having at least 12 months follow-up. The average age of the patients was 73; the majority were female with a pre-op diagnosis of Fuchs's dystrophy. Post-op visual acuities were 20/40 or better in 72% of the eyes. No implants were removed and only one eye required regrafting. The discission rate was 32%; discissions were usually performed a year post-op. We feel the favorable results are due to uniform use of microsurgical extracapsular catarat extraction at the time of surgery with good capsular fixation of the lens implant.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000601:surgery; D016039:Corneal Transplantation; D005128:Eye Diseases / Q000150:complications; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications