Traumatic aniridia after implantable phakic intraocular lens placement
Jordan W Winegar1, Grant A Justin1, Kraig S Bower1
1From the St. Louis University School of Medicine (Winegar), St. Louis, Missouri, the Department of Ophthalmology (Justin, Carlton), Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas, the Department of Surgery (Justin, Carlton), the Uniformed Services University of the Health Science, Bethesda, and the Wilmer Eye Institute (Bower), Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Abstract:
A 24-year-old man was involved in a high-velocity motor vehicle accident with polytrauma 2 years after implantation of a copolymer phakic IOL (pIOL) (Visian ICL). After being released from the intensive care unit, he reported decreased vision, pain, glare, and photophobia and was treated for hyphema without globe rupture. He was found to be aniridic during anterior chamber washout of the hyphema. In the first reported case, to our knowledge, of aniridia after pIOL placement, blunt trauma likely caused expulsion of the iris through dehiscence of the previously placed wound for pIOL implantation.
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