[Late complications in patients with intraocular lenses]

Examinations were carried out in 222 patients operated for cataract with simultaneous implantation of an intraocular lens. The period of time since the operation amounted 6 to 24 months. The authors observed only minor postoperative complications such as: distortion of the pupil (in 10.8 p.c. of patients), opacification of the posterior lens capsule (2.2 p.c.), a negligible reaction of the iris at the point of contact with the haptic part of the anterior chamber lens (1.4 p.c.), rotation of the lens correctly positioned in the visual axis (0.9 p.c.), incarceration of the haptic part of the anterior chamber lens in the limbal wound (0.9 p.c.), posterior synechiae (0.9 p.c.), occlusion of the pupil by pigment deposits (0.9 p.c.), leakiness of the limbal wound with filtration bleb (0.5 p.c.) and dispersed small deposits of pigment on the anterior surface of the artificial lens. Another complications in the examined patients, known from the literature, were not observed.