[A review of 400 intraocular lens implants (author's transl)]

400 intraocular lenses (iris-clip and iridocapsular pseudophakoi of the Binkhorst type) were implanted at the Lucerne Eye Hospital between 1973 and 1978. The present review emphasizes the paramount position of the ophthalmosurgeon among the complicating factors. The 2-loop metallic iridocapsular lenses were abandonned; secured iris-clip lenses are now after intra- and extra-capsular lens extraction. Aspiration of lens masses or needling of a secundary cataract were necessary in 27% of extracapsular lens extraction. Precipitates on the psuedophakoi were absent after intrakapsular lens extraction, indicating the uveitis being of phacogenic, not pseudophacogenic origin.