[Postoperative intraocular pressure following iris-clip lens implantation]

Within the past three years intraocular Binkhorst lenses have been implanted in 152 consecutive cases. In 36% of the intracapsularly operated cases (123 eyes) and 45% of the extracapsularly (29 eyes), intraocular pressure increased to 40 mm Hg for three to four days postoperatively. Pseudophakic-pupillary block glaucoma was not observed in any of the cases. Fourteen days postoperatively no case required glaucoma treatment. As in normal aphakic eyes, intraocular pressure dropped to subnormal values 8 weeks postoperatively in 6% of the cases.