title: Cataract surgery after retinal surgery.
abstract: Many patients require surgery for cataract after retinal surgery. When evaluating patients preoperatively, the surgeon should pay careful attention to the assessment of visual function and potential acuity, and to the slit lamp examination of the lens, posterior capsule, anterior cortical vitreous, and zonules. The surgeon's technique must account for increased nuclear sclerosis, intraoperative miosis, a characteristically longer axial length, and fluctuations in anterior chamber depth from movement of the iris-lens diaphragm. Posterior capsule plaques are not unusual. Posterior capsule opacification is the most frequent late complication. Visual outcomes are usually good except when limited by pre-existing macular pathology. Vision-threatening complications of cataract surgery are unusual.
authors.affiliation: Department of Ophthalmology, University of California at Los Angeles School of Medicine, and the Jules Stein Eye Institute, Los Angeles, California 90095, USA.
authors.forename: A S
authors.initials: AS
authors.lastname: Patel
authors.forename: K M
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Miller
mesh_terms: D002386:Cataract / Q000209:etiology*; D002387:Cataract Extraction; D006801:Humans; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012164:Retinal Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D014792:Visual Acuity