Bilateral blindness in a monocular patient after cataract surgery.
We present the case of a 74-year-old monocular man who went blind in his sighted eye from complications of exudative age-related macular degeneration several months after cataract surgery. He is now bilaterally blind.
Rodríguez
Andrés A
AA
Jules Stein Eye Institute, UCLA Department of Ophthalmology, David Geffen School of Medicine, Los Angeles, California 90095-7002, USA.
Olson
Michael D
MD
Miller
Kevin M
KM
D000368:Aged; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology*; D020256:Choroidal Neovascularization / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery; D005451:Fluorescein Angiography; D006801:Humans; D017075:Laser Coagulation; D019654:Lens Implantation, Intraocular; D008268:Macular Degeneration / Q000150:complications / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D018918:Phacoemulsification / Q000009:adverse effects*; D015349:Vision, Monocular; D014792:Visual Acuity; D014821:Vitrectomy