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Early posterior capsular opacification after intercapsular cataract extraction and rigid Galand disc intraocular lens
1Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery
|July 1, 1992
Abstract:
From retrospective studies of implantation of the rigid Galand disc intraocular lens (IOL) and the Sinskey style J-loop IOL, we found that posterior capsular opacification was more common and developed faster in eyes implanted with a Galand disc IOL than in eyes implanted with a Sinskey style J-loop IOL. We investigated this further in a clinical study of 20 patients implanted with a Galand disc IOL. We found a specific type of posterior capsular haze, resembling a "moon landscape," in 10 (50%) of the 16 eyes (80%) with capsular fibrosis.