Penetrating keratoplasty and anterior chamber intraocular lens implant: Outcomes in aphakic and pseudophakic bullous keratopathy

• Autor(a) principal: Dantas,Paulo E. C.
• Data de Publicação: 1997
• Outros Autores: Nishiwaki-Dantas,M. Cristina, Abbott,Richard L., Webster,Robert G., Fung,Wayne E.
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Arquivos brasileiros de oftalmologia (Online)
• Texto Completo: http://old.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0004-27491997000500542
• topic: Penetrating keratoplasty; Intraocular lens; Secondary implant; Aphakic bullous keratopathy; Pseudophakic bullous keratopathy

SUMMARY Concerns on anterior chamber intraocular lens (AC lOL) implantation are often raised due to the association of complications with the old-styled closed-loop AC lOL, especially those implanted in the mid-1980’s. Although those lenses are no longer marketed, there are still more than 200,000 patients with this type of lens in place in the United States. There are evidences that the new-style open-loop AC lOL may not be associated with the problems caused by closed-loop AC lOL. We report our experience in patients with pseudophakic bullous keratopathy (PBK) and aphakic bullous keratopathy (ABK) that underwent penetrating keratoplasty (PK) associated with AC lOL exchange (pseudophakic) or secondary implantation (aphakic).