[Implantation of intraocular lenses. Bullous keratopathy in pseudophakos]

The author presents his views on the implantation of intraocular lenses, in connection with two pseudophakic bullous keratopathy cases. There is no medical indication for implantation. The question is whether the most important function of the eye, object vision, may be risked in order to avoid aniseikonia or to restore binocular vision? Knowing that vision can be restored with glasses or contact lenses, is it ethical to induce more or less severe postoperative complications by means of intraocular lenses? In view of the considerable success often achieved immediately after the operation, complications which may not arise years later should also be taken into consideration.