aphakic


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someone afflicted by aphakia

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Postoperative IOP was raised in 5 (29.4%) patients where as one previous study by Shrikant P noted glaucoma in 13.5% patients.12 Mean age at time of surgery was 9.5+-3.3 months, In one study it was quoted that patients at very younger age of 4.5 months or less developed glaucoma, irrespective of the implantation of IOL.15 Another study reports that incidence of aphakic glaucoma, even with modern surgical techniques should be considered in all patients who had pediatric cataract extraction.
The authors reported a high success rate in patients with POAG (89.5%), NVG (86.8%), and inflammatory glaucoma (75%) and a lower success rate in traumatic (57.1%), aphakic (57.1%), and congenital or juvenile (62.5%) glaucoma.
In this study, 79 cases were pseudophakic and 21 patients were aphakic (Figure 1).
Material and Methods: Sixty eyes of 60 aphakic patients who underwent removal of silicon oil from December 2014 to August 2015 in AFIO after successful retinal re-attachment surgery were analysed.
Our patient could not benefit from any of these measures to restrict PCO growth as he was left aphakic after lensectomy.
Trabeculectomy with mitomycin C versus Ahmed glaucoma implant with mitomycin C for treatment of pediatric aphakic glaucoma.
(5) Another study demonstrated IOP reduction after cyclophotocoagulation in a pregnant woman with uveitic aphakic glaucoma.
Cats became extremely far sighted with little useful vision without a lens (aphakic vision).
Koch, MD; and Warren Hill, MD, the new IOL predictor formula incorporates elements from validated formulae used to calculate IOL power and adds aphakic data taken at the time of surgery to provide additional accuracy of a patient's refractive needs.
Six (17.14%) eyes were left aphakic after lens removal.
One PC IOL fell into the vitreous upon placement due to lack of capsular support so he was left aphakic and was referred to a vitreo-retinal surgeon at a tertiary hospital and further record of that particular patient was not available.
Ophthalmic device studies showed a higher than 50 percent enrollment for women--an interesting finding most likely attributed to the high number of PAS-required devices designed for older adults (intraocular lenses for aphakic patients, for example).
In Aphakic people, ultraviolet radiation can have particularly dangerous effects such as cystoid macular edema.