title: Changing trends in explanted intraocular lenses: a single center study.
abstract: Over a nine-year period, our practice removed 1,091 intraocular lenses. The most common type of lens requiring explantation was the closed-loop anterior chamber lens (58.6%). The Stableflex lens represented the largest percentage of all removed lens types (28.8%). The number of closed-loop anterior chamber lenses requiring removal peaked in 1988 and then gradually declined. All other lens styles have shown gradually increasing removal rates. Older style iris-fixated lenses and rigid anterior chamber lenses, which have not been implanted for several years, have increasing removal rates. Late breakage of fixational polypropylene sutures with pupil-supported iris-fixated lenses have occurred in five cases; the average time from implantation to suture breakage was 112 months.
authors.forename: F W
authors.initials: FW
authors.lastname: Price
authors.forename: W E
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Whitson
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Collins
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Johns
mesh_terms: D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000601:surgery; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D015948:Keratoplasty, Penetrating; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular; D011474:Prosthesis Design; D011475:Prosthesis Failure; D012086:Reoperation / Q000639:trends; D014821:Vitrectomy