Specialist gives pearls on how to deal with traumatic cataract

BELGRADE, Serbia — Cataract surgery has a low complication rate and is the most common, highly standardized procedure in the world, but there are no rules or pre-established patterns when cataract occurs in a traumatized eye.
“Traumatic cataract is another operation entirely. In trauma cases, there is no limits to what might happen and what might be needed, and this includes temporary keratoprosthesis with a complete mess inside the eye,” Ferenc Kuhn, MD, said at the European Society of Cataract and Refractive Surgeons winter meeting. “If you don’t plan your

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