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Over the past 7 years there has been a change in the management of accidental vitreous loss during cataract surgery. There has been a reduction in immediate postoperative complications such as hyphaema. No immediate post-operative complications were observed during the last 18 months of the study. Whereas previously many of these patients remained aphakic, there was a change initially to anterior chamber intraocular lenses (IOLs) and now the vast majority receive capsule-supported sul-cus-fixated posterior chamber IOLs. All patients had improved vision post-operatively by a mean of 4 Snellen lines, although they did not achieve the acuities of age-and sex-matched controls (p=0.015).
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Claoué, C., Steele, A. Visual prognosis following accidental vitreous loss during cataract surgery. Eye 7, 735–739 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.1993.171
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