Eight years experience with the Worst Medallion two loop lens.
282 cataract patients were operated and a Worst Medallion 2-loop pseudophakos was implanted. The material consisted of 154 males, 128 females, mean age 58.8 years, range 3-88 years. 200 had senile, 35 pre-senile, 31 traumatic and 16 some other type of cataract. 247 were intracapsular, 35 extracapsular extractions. 87.6% of all cases had a vision of greater than or equal to 0.5; if 8 cases with non-implant dependent complications are excluded, the rate is 90.1%. The following complications were observed: one bullous keratopathy (0.4%) and 5 local corneopathies (1.8%), 9 cases of uveitis (3.2%) of them 2 hypopyon, 1 vitritis and 6 anterior uveitis, 19 cystoid macular oedema (6.7%) and 10 retinal detachments (3.5%). Subluxation was the most common complication, 28 cases (9.9%), and broken sutures were seen in 15 eyes (5.3%). Secondary glaucoma was observed in 2 cases (0.7%), 3 cases (1.1%) needed secondary surgery. The complication rate is similar to that of conventional cataract extraction given in the literature.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002387:Cataract Extraction / Q000379:methods; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003316:Corneal Diseases / Q000209:etiology; D005069:Evaluation Studies as Topic; D005260:Female; D005901:Glaucoma / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D006988:Hyphema / Q000209:etiology; D007910:Lenses, Intraocular / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D008269:Macular Edema / Q000209:etiology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012163:Retinal Detachment / Q000209:etiology; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D014605:Uveitis / Q000209:etiology; D014792:Visual Acuity