EIGHT YEARS EXPERIENCE WITH THE WORST MEDALLION TWO LOOP LENS

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Abstract
282 cataract patients were operated and a Worst Medallion 2‐loop pseudophakos was implanted. The material consisted of 154 males, 128 females, mean age 58.8 years, range 3–88 years. 200 had senile, 35 pre‐senile, 31 traumatic and 16 some other type of cataract. 247 were intracapsular, 35 extracapsular extractions. 87.6% of all cases had a vision of ≥ 0.5; if 8 cases with non‐implant dependent complications are excluded, the rate is 90.1%. The following complications were observed: one bullous keratopathy (0.4%) and 5 local corneopathies (1.8%), 9 cases of uveitis (3.2%) of them 2 hypopyon, I vitritis and 6 anterior uveitis, 19 cystoid macular oedema (6.7%) and 10 retinal detachments (3.5%). Subluxation was the most common complication, 28 cases (9.9%), and broken sutures were seen in 15 eyes (5.3%). Secondary glaucoma was observed in 2 cases (0.7%), 3 cases (1.1%) needed secondary surgery. The complication rate is similar to that of conventional cataract extraction given in the literature.