Hernández VY, Hormigó PI, Obret MI, Escalona PA, Ramos BL

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ABSTRACT

Myopia is a serious public health problem, due to its high and increasing prevalence in various geographic regions. Phaco-refractive surgery consists in extraction of the clear or sclerosed content of the crystalline lens and implantation of an intraocular lens with the postoperative objective of achieving or approaching emmetropia. The procedure has shown to obtain predictable results stable in time, but it is not exempt from complications. A case is presented of a male 44-year-old patient with an ophthalmologic history of high myopia, secondary glaucoma and phaco-refractive surgery in both eyes, dynamic refraction of -3.50-100 x 200 with best corrected visual acuity of 0.8 on the Snellen chart in the right eye and -5.25 -1.25 x 1600 with best corrected visual acuity of 0.6 in the left eye. Biomicroscopic examination found surgical aphakia, posterior capsule opacity with large central laser capsulotomy, presence of vitreous in the anterior chamber of both eyes and high ocular pressure values. Secondary intraocular lens implantation was performed in both eyes. Dynamic refraction at three months was -0.50 -0.50 x 400 for the right eye with best corrected visual acuity of 0.9 on the Snellen chart, and -1.00 -0.75 x 1600 for the left eye with best corrected visual acuity of 0.6 on the Snellen chart. At two years the patient experienced subclinical retinal detachment in the right eye, which was treated with laser therapy, and glaucomatous damage in the left eye, for which the treatment indicated was trabeculectomy, selective laser trabeculoplasty, and then valved drainage implantation in the left eye.

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