Article Text
Letter
Visual perception of luxated intraocular lens by the patient
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We examined a patient with a luxation of an encapsulated intraocular lens (IOL) who clearly perceived and drew detailed images of the IOL.
Case report
A 74-year-old woman underwent vitrectomy with phacoemulsification, and a three-piece soft acrylic IOL (+23.5 D, MA60BM; Alcon, Fort Worth, TX) was implanted into the posterior chamber of the right eye uneventfully for vitreous opacity associated with sarcoidosis in 2002. Five years later, she noticed …
Footnotes
Funding: Support for this study was provided by Research Grants on Sensory and Communicative Disorders from the Ministry of Health, Labor, and Welfare, Japan.
Competing interests: None.
Patient consent: Obtained.