Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber

We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with a congenital anterior polar cataract who presented with a lens fragment within the anterior chamber of her left eye, without a medical history of surgery or trauma. Uneventful phacoemulsification with simultaneous removal of the lens fragment followed....

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Autores principales: Sorkou, Konstantina, Manthou, Maria Eleni, Meditskou, Soultana, Gavriilidou, Ariadni, Sioulis, Christos
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Ophthalmology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391932
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11699
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author Sorkou, Konstantina
Manthou, Maria Eleni
Meditskou, Soultana
Gavriilidou, Ariadni
Sioulis, Christos
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description We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with a congenital anterior polar cataract who presented with a lens fragment within the anterior chamber of her left eye, without a medical history of surgery or trauma. Uneventful phacoemulsification with simultaneous removal of the lens fragment followed. Postoperatively, the patient’s visual acuity improved from a perception of light to 20/100. Histological examination of the lens fragment revealed persistent fetal vasculature, as well as fibrous metaplasia and extensive collagenesis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of spontaneous rupture of both the anterior capsule and the lens.
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spelling pubmed-77698012020-12-31 Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber Sorkou, Konstantina Manthou, Maria Eleni Meditskou, Soultana Gavriilidou, Ariadni Sioulis, Christos Cureus Ophthalmology We report the case of a 60-year-old woman with a congenital anterior polar cataract who presented with a lens fragment within the anterior chamber of her left eye, without a medical history of surgery or trauma. Uneventful phacoemulsification with simultaneous removal of the lens fragment followed. Postoperatively, the patient’s visual acuity improved from a perception of light to 20/100. Histological examination of the lens fragment revealed persistent fetal vasculature, as well as fibrous metaplasia and extensive collagenesis. To our knowledge, this is the first report of spontaneous rupture of both the anterior capsule and the lens. Cureus 2020-11-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7769801/ /pubmed/33391932 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11699 Text en Copyright © 2020, Sorkou et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
spellingShingle Ophthalmology
Sorkou, Konstantina
Manthou, Maria Eleni
Meditskou, Soultana
Gavriilidou, Ariadni
Sioulis, Christos
Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title_full Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title_fullStr Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title_full_unstemmed Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title_short Spontaneous Lens Rupture in Congenital Cataract, Presented as Lens Fragment Within the Anterior Chamber
title_sort spontaneous lens rupture in congenital cataract, presented as lens fragment within the anterior chamber
topic Ophthalmology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7769801/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33391932
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11699
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