title: Modern surgical treatment of congenital subluxated lenses.
abstract: Traditional surgical management of subluxated lenses is usually associated with a high incidence of operative and postoperative complication and a poor visual outcome. We treated a series of 14 patients (26 eyes) whose visual acuity could not be improved with optical correction (phakic or aphakic) with modern microsurgery and automated suction-cutting devices. Preoperative visual acuity ranged from 0.05 to 0.3. Improvement in post-operative visual acuity was documented in all operated eyes, ranging from 0.4 to 1.0 during a follow-up period ranging from 6 to 59 months (medium 43 months). The only complication was a small accidental cut in the pupillary border in three eyes. Other complication did not occur.
authors.affiliation: National Ophthalmological Laboratories, Ministry of Public Health, China.
authors.forename: X
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Guo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: L
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Zeng
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004479:Ectopia Lentis / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007908:Lens, Crystalline / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008382:Marfan Syndrome / Q000503:physiopathology / Q000601:surgery; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000379:methods; D014792:Visual Acuity