Surgeon: Better to rescue subluxated IOLs than to replace them

BARCELONA — IOL subluxation or dislocation occurs with increasing frequency, as reported in several sessions of the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons meeting. The best way to deal with this complication may be to rescue the IOL rather than explant it, according to one surgeon.“I wouldn’t call it an epidemic, but for sure it is something we see more and more often. One of the reasons might be that we do more complicated cases. We dare more and implant IOLs in an increasing number of increasingly old people,” Ehud Assia, MD, said.