Dislocation of a scleral-fixated, posterior chamber intraocular lens after fixation suture removal

A 58-year-old man's posterior chamber intraocular lens dislocated after a transscleral fixation suture was removed during a routine eye examination. The lens had to be repositioned. A scleral flap over the fixation sutures and a better understanding by general ophthalmologists of transscleral fixation suturing would have prevented this complication.