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Complicated Cataract

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Patients with uveitis may develop significant visual morbidity due to development of secondary cataract. The surgical management of cataract among patients with uveitis may be very challenging in cases with severe, uncontrolled inflammation, as well as in patients with small pupil, iris atrophy, and cornea complications such as band-shaped keratopathy. With newer surgical instrumentation, better intraocular lens designs, and wide range of immunosuppressants, the outcome of patients with uveitic cataracts has greatly improved. The following chapter describes cases of complicated cataracts that were successfully managed surgically in different settings of ocular inflammation.

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  1. Advanced Eye Center, Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER), Chandigarh, 160012, India

    Aniruddha Agarwal & Jagat Ram

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  1. Aniruddha Agarwal
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  1. Advanced Eye Center, PGIMER, Chandigarh, India

    Vishali Gupta

  2. Ophthalmology, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska, USA

    Quan Dong Nguyen

  3. Department of Ophthalmology, Pitié-Salpêtrière University, Paris, France

    Phuc LeHoang

  4. University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland

    Carl P Herbort Jr.

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Agarwal, A., Ram, J. (2016). Complicated Cataract. In: Gupta, V., Nguyen, Q., LeHoang, P., Herbort Jr., C. (eds) The Uveitis Atlas. Springer, New Delhi. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-2506-5_114-1

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