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Complete spontaneous crystalline lens dislocation into the anterior chamber with severe corneal endothelial cell loss
Motoko Kawashima1, Tetsuya Kawakita, Jun Shimazaki
1Department of Ophthalmology, Tokyo Dental College, Chiba, Japan. motokok@tdc.ac.jp
Purpose:
To report an unusual case of a spontaneously dislocated crystalline lens into the anterior chamber that was successfully treated.
Methods:
A generally healthy 49-year-old woman with no history of trauma presented with a spontaneously dislocated crystalline lens into the anterior chamber accompanied by corneal endothelial cell loss. The crystalline lens was extracted intracapsularly after gentle separation from the corneal endothelium by using a viscoelastic material.
Results:
Visual acuity remained at 20/16 from 1 day postoperatively, with little endothelial cell loss compared with preoperatively.
Conclusions:
A spontaneously dislocated crystalline lens into the anterior chamber with severe corneal endothelial cell loss was treated successfully by intracapsular extraction.
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