ATHENS, Greece — Sport-related repeated micro-trauma could be the cause of traumatic cataract and zonular damage without clinically evident signs, according to a presenter.
At the ESCRS winter meeting, Dimitrios Tsouris, MD, of Greece presented an unexpected case of trypan blue migration in the vitreous cavity during phacoemulsification in a 30-year-old man with cataract in his left eye.
“It was a normal, fine-looking cataract,” he said. “The trypan blue was instilled under air and exchanged with [balanced salt solution]. But after that, everything turned blue, and the