Traumatic anterior dislocation of the crystalline lens and its surgical management.
This paper reports a case of a 57-year old female who had sustained a blunt ocular trauma resulting in anterior dislocation of the crystalline lens and acute painful visual loss in the left eye. The patient was managed with anterior chamber intracapsular phacoemulsification through a small anterior capsulotomy, pars plana vitrectomy, and surgical iridotomy. Aphakia was corrected by a contact lens. Two months after the surgery, the best corrected visual acuity was 0.9 in the left eye. The vision and retina remained stable in her follow-up examination 1 year later. Anterior dislocation of the crystalline lens can cause severe complications so that dislocated lens should be removed immediately.
Ophthalmology Clinic, Clinical Centre of Kragujevac, Serbia. sunce.sun@yahoo.com
Sunčica
S
Srećković
Mirjana
M
Janićijević Petrović
Svetlana
S
Jovanović
Svetlana
S
Paunović
Tatjana
T
Sarenac
D000867:Anterior Chamber / Q000473:pathology; D001035:Aphakia / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D003261:Contact Lenses; D005131:Eye Injuries / Q000150:complications*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007906:Lens Subluxation / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D008875:Middle Aged; D018918:Phacoemulsification; D014821:Vitrectomy; D014949:Wounds, Nonpenetrating / Q000150:complications*